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JFF.333
Haul Before the Storm
Alternate titles: Haul Before Storm; Shad Fishermen
1940–41
Oil on canvas
34 x 50 in. (86.36 x 127 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: p. [28]
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibitions
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 136th Annual Exhibition, January 26–March 2, 1941, no. 327.
National Academy of Design, New York, 118th Annual Exhibition, March–April 1943, no. 87, as Haul Before Storm.
Century Association, New York, John Folinsbee, February 1959.
William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, John Folinsbee, July 17–September 14, 1959, no. 2, ill. lent by the artist.
Art Association Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee and Charles Rudy, February 4–24, 1968.
The Century Association, New York, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Folinsbee, 1973, no. 16, ill., 12 (b/w), lent by Mrs. John Folinsbee.
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Memorial Exhibition for Eugene Berman, Philip Evergood, John Folinsbee, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Jacques Lipchitz, Franklin Watkins, March 8–April 7, 1974, no. 17.
The Gunnery School, Washington, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by John Folinsbee, 1976, no. 5.
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, The Remaining Major Works of Leith-Ross and the Extraordinary Early Paintings of John Folinsbee (1917-1940), November 4–December 2, 1979.
Woodmere Art Museum, John Folinsbee and American Modernism, November 6, 2010–March 6, 2011. (Jensen 2010).
Published References
Watson, Ernest. Paintings by John Folinsbee. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth art Museum, 1959. Exhibition catalogue, b/w ill.
[no title]. Bucks County Gazette, June 4, 1970, b/w ill., as Shad Fishermen.
Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #408.
Cook, Peter G. A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Folinsbee, Presented by the Century Association. The Century Association, 1973. Exhibition catalogue, p. 12, b/w ill.
Reed, Melissa A. "John Folinsbee: A Traditional Painter Amidst Modernist Trends." Yale University, 1994, fig. 26.
Record last updated March 28, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Haul Before the Storm, 1940–41 (JFF.333)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=333 (accessed on April 30, 2025).