Catalogue entry
JFF.1021
The Silver River
1919–20
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left: John Folinsbee; written on stretcher: "The Silver River"
Written on paper label hanging from eye screws: "#13 Folinsbee"
Folinsbee 1912–20s stockbook: p. 39
Private collection
Provenance
Sold to Mr. George Leigh, Easton, PA, July 1920, ($150)
Collection of Gregory Coster
Beacon Hill Gallery
Private collection
Exhibitions
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, A Retrospective, March 25–June 18, 1995, no. 9, lent by Gregory Coster.
Beacon Hill Fine Art, The Pennsylvania Impressionists, 1996. Traveled to: Westmoreland Museum of Fine Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, April–July 1997; Florence Griswald Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, October–November 1997; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, December 1997–February 1998; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, March–May 1998; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, June–August 1998.
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Impressionists: An American Tradition, June 6–August 15, 1998. Traveled to: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, January–February 22, 1998; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, March 28–May 10, 1998.
Published References
Folk, Thomas C. "Industrial Images from the Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting." Mercer Mosaic 6 (Fall 1989), p. 89, b/w ill.
Berman, Ann. "Art Notebook: Bucks County Impressionists." Architectural Digest (November 1994), p. 64, color ill.
Force, Debra. An American Tradition: The Pennsylvania Impressionists. New York: Beacon Hill Fine Art, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, color ill.
"The Pennsylvania Impressionists." American Art Review 10, no. 1 (February 1998), p. 157, color ill.
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 21, color ill.; p. 234, cat entry.
Record last updated April 22, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""The Silver River, 1919–20 (JFF.1021)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1021 (accessed on May 15, 2025).