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Support: on canvas »
JFF.426
Great Blue Heron
Alternate titles: Blue Heron; Island Rocks
Before 1968
Oil on canvas
26 x 40 in. (66.04 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee
Provenance
John F. Folinsbee Art Trust
John Folinsbee Art Trust
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. 5, as Island Rocks.
1958 Century
Century Association, New York, Artist Members Exhibition, November 1958.
1964 Bates College ME
Bates College, Treat Gallery, Lewiston, Maine, Paintings by John Folinsbee, Portraits by Peter Cook, 1964.
1968 Art Association Harrisburg
Art Association Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee and Charles Rudy, February 4–24, 1968, as Great Blue Heron.
Published References
Vose 1972
Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #578, as Blue Heron.
Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 276, cat entry.
Record last updated November 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Great Blue Heron, Before 1968 (JFF.426)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=426 (accessed on May 1, 2025).