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Locations:
- New Hope / Lambertville / Trenton »
Subjects:
- Social occasions »
Time-frames:
- 1930-1949 »

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Classification: painting »

Theme: genre »

Medium: Oil »

Support: on board »

JFF.217

New Hope Scientific Society

Alternate title: The Scientific Society

1935

Oil on board

8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)

Unsigned

Private collection

Provenance

John F. Folinsbee Art Trust

Sold, Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Private collection

Exhibitions

1990 Newman

Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course, March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 64, as The Scientific Society.

Published References

Cook 1994

Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. New York: Kubaba Books, 1994, p. 82, color ill.

Winter 1994

Winter, Hillary. "The life and art of John Folinsbee." Review of John Folinsbee, by Peter Cook. The Times, May 22, 1994, DD4, b/w ill.

Jensen 2013

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 79, color ill.

Notes

This little study resembles an oil sketch Folinsbee sold in 1930 (Poker Sketch, JFF.997), and captures a non-artistic aspect of social life in the New Hope art colony.

Record last updated February 11, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""New Hope Scientific Society, 1935 (JFF.217)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=217 (accessed on August 20, 2025).