Catalogue entry
JFF.178
Second Birthday (Beth)
Alternate titles: Beth; Second Birthday
1919
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right: John F. Folinsbee/Feb 1919
Folinsbee 1912–20s stockbook: p. 169
Current location unknown
Provenance
Current location unknown
Exhibitions
Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, Annual Exhibition, October.
National Academy of Design, New York, 94th Annual Exhibition, March 22–April 27, 1919, no. 125, as Second Birthday.
Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition of American Painting, July 12–29, 1919.
McClees Gallery, Philadelphia, Paintings of John F. Folinsbee, November 1–25, 1920, no. 5.
Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, March 1921.
Dayton Museum of Arts, Dayton, Ohio, Exhibition of Modern American Paintings, January 21–February 9, 1923.
Published References
"Fourth Annual Exhibition by John Folinsbee Opens at Ferargil Gallery." New York Tribune, January 6, 1919, as Beth.
Price, Frederic Newlin. "Folinsbee of Golden Song." International Studio 76 (February 1923), p. 421, b/w ill.
Notes
The New York Times remarked that Second Birthday "shows what he can do with a child in the studio. And he does exactly the right thing" (13 March 1921).
Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Sons, collection of the artist.
Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Sons, collection of the artist.
Record last updated March 27, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Second Birthday (Beth), 1919 (JFF.178)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=178 (accessed on April 30, 2025).