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Stylistic:
- Mature Impressionism »
Subjects:
- Industrial Scenes »
- Winter scenes »
- Work scenes »
Time-frames:
- 1920-1929 »

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Theme: landscape »

Medium: Oil »

Support: on canvas »

JFF.1282

Brooklyn Roofs

Alternate title: Brooklyn Rooftops

1920–21

Oil on canvas

24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)

Signed lower right: John F. Folinsbee

Folinsbee 1912–20s stockbook: p. 180, 182: , and Budworth Inventory List, September 1923

Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: no number [7]

Private collection

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Collection Henry H. H. Meigs

Private collection

Exhibitions

1921 Carnegie

The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 20th International Exhibition of Paintings, April 28–June 30, 1921.

1922 Ferargil

Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, March 1–15, 1922, no. 4.

1926 Chicago

Carson, Pirie & Scott, Chicago, John Folinsbee, February 1926.

1977 Newman

Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee, 1977, no. 51, as Brooklyn Rooftops.

Published References

Bowdoin 1922

Bowdoin, W. G. "John Folinsbee Shows New Oils at the Ferargil." New York Evening World, [1922].

NY Evening Post 1922

"Characteristics of Folinsbee's Art." New York Evening Post, March 11, 1922.

NY Times 1922

"John Folinsbee." New York Times, March 5, 1922.

Jensen 2013

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 236, cat entry.

Record last updated August 27, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Brooklyn Roofs, 1920–21 (JFF.1282)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1282 (accessed on September 12, 2025).