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Theme: landscape »
Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
JFF.184
Along the Shepaug
1917
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right: John F. Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1912–20s stockbook: p. 36
Private collection, Chicago
Provenance
Mrs. C. Boynton, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 (purchase from the artist)
Purchased at a Chicago estate sale in the 1940s, and by descent in the family
Exhibitions
1919 Ferargil
Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, January 1919.
1919 Rochester
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Group Exhibition of Paintings by Myron Barlow, Charles Rosen, Hayley Lever, Randall Daley, John Wenger, and John Folinsbee; A Series of Thumb-Box Sketches lent by the Ferargil Gallery, New York; and Foreign War Posters Lent by Mrs. Fiske Warren of Harvard, Mass, February Nineteen Hundred Nineteen, February 7–March 6, 1919, no. 77.
1919 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 94th Annual Exhibition, March 22–April 27, 1919, no. 48.
1919 Newport
Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition of American Painting, July 12–29, 1919.
1919 AIC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 32nd Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, November 6–December 10, 1919, no. 74.
Published References
NY Times 1919b
"Landscapes." New York Times, January 27, 1919.
Price 1923
Price, Frederic Newlin. "Folinsbee of Golden Song." International Studio 76 (February 1923), p. 423, b/w ill.
Austin 2003
Austin, Robert Michael. Artists of the Litchfield Hills. Waterbury, CT: Mattatuck Historical Society, 2003. Exhibition catalogue, p. 93, fig. 91, b/w ill.
Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 231, cat entry.
Notes
A scene along the Shepaug River, near Washington, Connecticut.
Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Sons, collection of the artist.
Record last updated June 11, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Along the Shepaug, 1917 (JFF.184)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=184 (accessed on May 2, 2025).