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093
Queensboro Bridge
Alternate titles: Manhattan Bridge; Queensborough Bridge; Williamsburg Bridge
1917
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1912–20s stockbook: p. 33, 161, 163-165, 169-171
Private collection
Provenance
Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee to 1974
Private collection
Exhibitions
1917 PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 112th Annual Exhibition, February 4–March 25, 1917, no. 65.
1917 West Chester
West Chester Art Association, West Chester, Pennsylvania, [unknown title], April 1917.
1917 Newport
Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition of American Painting, July 14–29, 1917.
1917 Saint Louis
City Art Museum of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 12th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, September 23–October 28, 1917.
1917–18 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 92nd Annual Exhibition (Winter), December 15, 1917–January 13, 1918, no. 89.
1918 AFA
American Federation of the Arts, New York, [Circuit Exhibition], January 20–May 1, 1918.
1918–19 AIC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 31st Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, November 7, 1918–January 1, 1919, no. 73, Awarded an Honorable Mention.
1919 JHAI
John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 34th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings, January 19–March 2, 1919.
1919 Detroit
Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, 5th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, April 16–May 31, 1919, no. 132.
1919 Toledo
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 8th Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, June–August 1919, no. 24.
1919–20 Corcoran
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 7th Biennial of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, December 21, 1919–January 25, 1920, no. 35.
1920 Ferargil
Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, March 1920.
1920 Albright-Knox Buffalo
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 14th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, May 29–June 12, 1920, no. 44.
1920 McClees
McClees Gallery, Philadelphia, Paintings of John F. Folinsbee, November 1–25, 1920, no. 2.
1973 Century
The Century Association, New York, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Folinsbee, 1973, no. 1, ill., 8 (b/w), as Williamsburg Bridge, lent by Mrs. John Folinsbee.
1976 Gunnery School
The Gunnery School, Washington, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by John Folinsbee, 1976, no. 2.
1977 Newman
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee, 1977, no. 8.
1982 NJSM
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 1, ill., [5], b/w ill.
1986 St Botolph Boston
St. Botolph Club, Boston, John F. Folinsbee, 1986, no. 7.
1990 Newman
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course, March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 54.
1995 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, A Retrospective, March 25–June 18, 1995, no. 6.
2001 Ogunquit
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, The Art of John Folinsbee, July–August 2001, no. 1.
2010 Woodmere Art Museum Phila
Woodmere Art Museum, John Folinsbee and American Modernism, November 6, 2010–March 6, 2011. (Jensen 2010).
2013 Hudson
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers, 1900-1940, October 12, 2013–January 17, 2014. (Exhibition catalogue: Jensen & Bland 2013), no. 25, ill., p. 118, as Queensborough Bridge. Traveled to: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 20–June 22, 2014.
Published References
NY Evening Post 1917
Pene du Bois, Guy. "[The Academy Exhibition]." New York Evening Post, [December 1917].
NY Times 1917a
[no title]. New York Times, January 1917.
AIC Bulletin 1918
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 12 (December 1918), p. 145, b/w ill.
Cook 1973
Cook, Peter G. A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Folinsbee, Presented by the Century Association. The Century Association, 1973. Exhibition catalogue, p. 8, b/w ill., as Williamsburg Bridge.
Cook 1977
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. Philadelphia: Newman Galleries, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 8, b/w ill.
Cook 1994
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. New York: Kubaba Books, 1994, p. 63, color ill.
Reed 1994
Reed, Melissa A. "John Folinsbee: A Traditional Painter Amidst Modernist Trends." Yale University, 1994, fig. 3.
Culver 2001
Culver, Michael. "The Art of John Folinsbee." American Art Review 13, no. 4 (August 2001), p. 107, color ill.
Ogunquit 2001
Michael Culver. The Art of John Folinsbee. Ogunquit, ME: Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, color ill.
Gold 2013
Silviane Gold. "Same New York Rivers, but All Else Was New: A Review of ‘Industrial Sublime’ at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers." New York Times, November 3, 2013.
Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 39, color ill.; p. 146-147, color plate (detail); p. 149, color plate 6; p. 231, cat entry.
Jensen & Bland 2013
Kirsten M. Jensen and Bartholomew F. Bland. Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers, 1900-1940. Fordham University Press, 2013. Exhibition catalogue (2013 Hudson), p. 118, color ill., as Queensborough Bridge.
Record last updated August 23, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Queensboro Bridge, 1917 (JFF.093)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=093 (accessed on March 29, 2024).