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241
The First Log
Alternate titles: Solitude; Winter Logging
1915–16
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee; inscribed on back of frame (not in artist's hand), "Solitude"
Private collection
Provenance
Sold from Ferargil Gallery 1920, $200
Plymouth Meeting Gallery, purchased from Susanin's Auctions in Chicago (as Winter Logging), 1996
Private collection, 1997
Exhibitions
Smith College, Hillyer Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts, Paintings of John F. Folinsbee, October–November 1916.
Ferargil Galleries, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, January 1–15, 1917, as The First Log.
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. 90, as The First Log.
Published References
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 53, color ill.; p. 227, cat entry.
Notes
An 8 x 10 study for this painting, First Log, JFF.940, is an inverse of this larger work: the horse-drawn sleigh proceeds across the canvas left to right, rather than right to left, as seen here. There is no indication in Folinsbee's log book why he changed the composition for the larger version. The location is probably somewhere near Washington, Connecticut.
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. ""The First Log, 1915–16 (JFF.241)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=241 (accessed on May 19, 2024).