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Locations:
- Pennsylvania »
Stylistic:
- Mature Expressionism »
Subjects:
- Delaware River / Canal Scenes »
- Industrial Scenes »
- Work scenes »
Time-frames:
- 1930-1949 »

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Classification: painting »

Theme: landscape »

Medium: Oil »

Support: on canvas »

JFF.758

Raritan Canal

1936

Oil on canvas

24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)

Signed lower right: John Folinsbee

Private collection

Provenance

Private collection

Exhibitions

1936 Babcock

Babcock Galleries, New York, [Group Exhibition], April 1936.

1938 Ferargil

Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, February 28–March 13, 1938.

1939 NAD

National Academy of Design, New York, Special Exhibition at the World's Fair, May 8–July 25, 1939.

1981 Richard Stuart

Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee: His Changing Landscape and Industrial Modernism, 1981.

2010 Woodmere Art Museum Phila

Woodmere Art Museum, John Folinsbee and American Modernism, November 6, 2010–March 6, 2011. (Jensen 2010).

Published References

Devree 1936

Devree, Howard. "Art Shows: Brief Comment on New Exhibitions." New York Times, April 12, 1936, "vigorous if somewhat raw".

Jewell 1939

Jewell, Edward Alden. "Academy Retrospective." New York Times, May 14, 1939.

Vose 1972

Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #446.

Jensen 2013

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 90, color ill.; p. 265, cat entry.

Record last updated March 7, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Raritan Canal, 1936 (JFF.758)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=758 (accessed on May 1, 2025).