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Photo: Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Sons, Archives of the John F. Folinsbee Art Trust

Series

Keywords

Locations:
- New Hope / Lambertville / Trenton »
Stylistic:
- Early Expressionism »
Subjects:
- Delaware River / Canal Scenes »
- Industrial Scenes »
- Work scenes »
Time-frames:
- 1920-1929 »

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Classification: painting »

Theme: landscape »

Medium: Oil »

Support: on canvas »

JFF.339

Passing Tow Mules

Alternate title: Tow Mules

1928

Oil on canvas

32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)

Signed lower right: John F. Folinsbee

Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: p. [176]: (sketch)

Current location unknown

Provenance

Sold to a Princeton, NJ, collector in 1929

Exhibitions

1928 Grand Central NY II

Grand Central Galleries, New York, Recent Paintings by John Folinsbee, January–February 1928.

1928 NAD Winter

National Academy of Design, New York, 103rd Annual Exhibition (Winter), November–December 1928, no. 246.

1929b Phillips Mill Community Assn

Phillips Mill Community Association, New Hope, Pennsylvania, Exhibition of Fine Arts, October 5–27, 1929.

1929 AFA II

American Federation of Arts, United States, Western Art Museum Circuit Exhibition, December 1929. Traveled to: Fort Worth, Texas; Emporia, Kansas; Washington (missing venues and dates); Denton College, Denton, Texas; Municipal Art Gallery, Iowa.

Published References

Art Digest 1929

"New Hope Colony Holds Its Fall Show." The Art Digest (October 1929), p. 10, b/w ill., as Tow Mules.

Jensen 2013

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 252, 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. ""Passing Tow Mules, 1928 (JFF.339)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=339 (accessed on June 16, 2025).