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Photo: Gratz Gallery and Conservation Studio

Keywords

Locations:
- New Hope / Lambertville / Trenton »
Stylistic:
- Early Expressionism »
Subjects:
- Delaware River / Canal Scenes »
- Industrial Scenes »
- Winter scenes »
- Work scenes »
Time-frames:
- 1920-1929 »

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Classification: painting »

Theme: landscape »

Medium: Oil »

Support: on canvas »

JFF.190

Mule Barn

1928–29

Oil on canvas

24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)

Signed lower right: John Folinsbee

Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: p. [78], [86]

Private collection

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Private collection, Princeton

Wiscasset Bay Gallery

Private collection

Exhibitions

1929 Lehigh University PA

Lehigh University Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 4–18, 1929.

Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, [Group Exhibition], November 14–December 1, 1929.

1976 Gunnery School

The Gunnery School, Washington, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by John Folinsbee, 1976, no. 42.

Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee, 1977, no. 23.

Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course, March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 43.

Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John Folinsbee: Another View, April 8–30, 1994, no. 25.

Gratz Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 19th & 20th Century American Paintings, 2007.

Published References

Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #555.

Stricker, Michele Pavon. John Folinsbee: Following His Own Course. Philadelphia: Newman Galleries, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, b/w ill., #43.

"Pennsylvania Painters and the New Hope Circle." New Hope, PA: Gratz Gallery, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, color ill.

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 74, color ill.; p. 252, cat entry.

Record last updated May 28, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Mule Barn, 1928–29 (JFF.190)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=190 (accessed on May 6, 2025).