loading 
Catalogue entry
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
1919 PAC
Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, Annual Exhibition, October.1919 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 94th Annual Exhibition, March 22–April 27, 1919, no. 125, as Second Birthday.1919 Newport
Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition of American Painting, July 12–29, 1919.1920 McClees
McClees Gallery, Philadelphia, Paintings of John F. Folinsbee, November 1–25, 1920, no. 5.1921 Ferargil
Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, March 1921.1923 Dayton Museum
Dayton Museum of Arts, Dayton, Ohio, Exhibition of Modern American Paintings, January 21–February 9, 1923.Published References
NY Tribune 1919
"Fourth Annual Exhibition by John Folinsbee Opens at Ferargil Gallery." New York Tribune, January 6, 1919, as Beth.NY Times 1921c
"Paintings by John Folinsbee." New York Times, March 18, 1921.Price 1923
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, 2024).