Catalogue entry
JFF.1262
School House Hill
1923–24
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right: John F. Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: no number n.p.
Provenance
Destroyed 1930 (per note in artist's log)
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, 99th Annual Exhibition (Winter), November 15–December 7, 1924, no. 314.
Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, February–March 1925.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Fifth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, June 11–July 13, 1925.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 121st Annual Exhibition, January 31–March 21, 1926, no. 258.
Charcoal Club, Baltimore, Annual Exhibition, April 6–May 2, 1926.
Published References
Notes
This painting received a number of favorable reviews when exhibited at Folinsbee's annual show at Ferargil Gallery in 1925. One reviewer remarked that "if it has permanence of emotional appeal in its beauty of relations of line and rhythm and its resolution of all this big detail of landscape into unity of impression, one does not need to invest it with any associations or allusions to heighten its challenge." The New York Times' critic also saw the main value of the painting in its formal elements, writing that "the splendid curve of a bridge rounds the composition and a green house and a red house next to one another stops the line in the right place. The red and green play solo parts on a background of grayish snow and dull orange trees." Sadly, the painting was destroyed in 1930, so we will never have the chance to see what it looked like in color.
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. ""School House Hill, 1923–24 (JFF.1262)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1262 (accessed on July 20, 2025).