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Time-frames:
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JFF.289

Bait Diggers

1954

Oil on canvas

26 x 40 in. (66.04 x 101.6 cm)

Signed lower left: John Folinsbee

Private collection

Provenance

Private collection

Exhibitions

1956 Woodmere

Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Paintings by John F. Folinsbee and Peter Cook with Sculpture by Charles Chase, February 12–March 4, 1956, no. 81.

1962 Scofield

Scofield Gallery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, [John Folinsbee], November 15–30, 1962.

1967 Century

The Century Association, New York, Artist Member's Exhibition, November 1967.

Published References

Daily Intelligencer 1962

Wicks, Alden. "Painter's Brush Dips in Fountain of Youth." Daily Intelligencer [Doylestown], November 16, 1962.

Cook 1994

Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. New York: Kubaba Books, 1994, p. 117, color ill.

Jensen 2013

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 275, cat entry.

Record last updated June 18, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Bait Diggers, 1954 (JFF.289)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=289 (accessed on May 6, 2025).