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474
Deserted Mine No. 1
Alternate titles: Deserted Mine; Manayunk Brickyard
1930
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left: John Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: p. [19]
Private collection
Provenance
John F. Folinsbee Art Trust
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, April 23, 2015; lot 61
John F. Folinsbee Art Trust
Private collection
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, 106th Annual Exhibition, March 15–April 5, 1931, no. 312, as Deserted Mine.
College Art Association, American Scenes and Subjects, New York, September–October 1931.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 128th Annual Exhibition, January 29–March 19, 1933, no. 64.
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee: His Changing Landscape and Industrial Modernism, 1981.
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Inaugural Exhibition of 20th Century Art, 1988–89, ill., p. 25, b/w ill., as Manayunk Brickyard.
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course, March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 40, as Manayunk Brickyard.
Woodmere Art Museum, John Folinsbee and American Modernism, November 6, 2010–March 6, 2011. (Jensen 2010).
Published References
Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #409.
James A. Michener Arts Center. Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth-Century American Art. Doylestown, PA: James A. Michener Arts Center, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, b/w ill.
Reed, Melissa A. "John Folinsbee: A Traditional Painter Amidst Modernist Trends." Yale University, 1994, fig. 20, as Manayunk Brickyard.
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 22 color ill; p. 257 cat entry.
Record last updated April 25, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Deserted Mine No. 1, 1930 (JFF.474)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=474 (accessed on April 23, 2024).