Catalogue entry
324
Evening at Swan's Island
1938
Oil on canvas
34 x 50 in. (86.36 x 127 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee; on verso: Newman Gallery label; estate label; National Academy of Design exhibition label; Feragil Gallery (63 E. 57th, NYC), Price $1,200; Ogunquit Museum of American Art exhibition label
Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: p. [21]
Provenance
John F. Folinsbee Art Trust
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, 113th Annual Exhibition, March 16–April 13, 1938, no. 277.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Paintings by Jon Corbino, John F. Folinsbee, Ivan Olinsky, April 1938.
Currier Gallery of Art, July–September 1938.
Grand Central Galleries, New York, American Art—Without "Isms", June 1939, received fourth prize for best landscape.
The Century Association, New York, Artist Members Exhibition, November 1950.
Western Electric Gallery, John Folinsbee, A Retrospective, 1980.
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, Bucks County Painters, 1980s.
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee: His Changing Landscape and Industrial Modernism, 1981.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 29, ill., [16], color ill.
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course, March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 16.
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, The Art of John Folinsbee, July–August 2001, no. 17.
Clark Point Gallery, John Folinsbee and Peter Cook, 2002.
The Gunn Memorial Library and Museum, Picture Perfect: The Art of John Folinsbee, Summer/Fall 2003.
Published References
Jewell, Edward Alden. [no title]. New York Times, March 20, 1938, "the spacious, liberal happiness of John Folinsbee's 'Evening at Swan Island'".
Grand Central Art Galleries, Yearbook 1939. New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, 1939, p. 14 b/w ill.
Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #405.
Stricker, Michele Pavon. John Folinsbee: Following His Own Course. Philadelphia: Newman Galleries, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, color ill.
Culver, Michael. "The Art of John Folinsbee." American Art Review 13, no. 4 (August 2001), p. 108, color ill.
Michael Culver. The Art of John Folinsbee. Ogunquit, ME: Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2001. Exhibition catalogue.
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 136, color ill.; p. 267, cat entry.
Record last updated January 12, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Evening at Swan's Island, 1938 (JFF.324)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=324 (accessed on April 26, 2024).