Catalogue entry
JFF.785
Beth, April 1918
Alternate titles: Baby Elizabeth; Portrait of My Daughter
1918
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee April, 1918
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Private collection
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, 93rd Annual Exhibition, March 13–April 21, 1918, no. 138, as Portrait of My Daughter.
Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition of American Painting, July 13–30, 1918.
Ferargil Gallery, New York, Paintings by John Folinsbee, January 1919.
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Group Exhibition of Paintings by Myron Barlow, Charles Rosen, Hayley Lever, Randall Daley, John Wenger, and John Folinsbee; A Series of Thumb-Box Sketches lent by the Ferargil Gallery, New York; and Foreign War Posters Lent by Mrs. Fiske Warren of Harvard, Mass, February Nineteen Hundred Nineteen, February 7–March 6, 1919, no. 92, as Portrait of My Daughter.
McClees Gallery, Philadelphia, Paintings of John F. Folinsbee, November 1–25, 1920, no. 26.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 116th Annual Exhibition, February 6–March 26, 1921, no. 393, as Baby Elizabeth.
Published References
"Notes of the Studios and Galleries." Arts & Decoration (April 1918), p. 268, as Portrait of My Daughter.
Bowdoin, G. W. "John Folinsbee's Paintings Shown at the Ferargil." New York Evening World, January 24, 1919.
[no title]. Rochester Democrat, February 8, 1919, as Portrait of My Daughter.
Notes
The New York Times wrote that Beth "is another figure subject...[a] child holding a toy elephant in her arms. the artist has succeeded admirably in keeping the suggestion of childish charm without going into detail about it."
Record last updated August 2, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Beth, April 1918, 1918 (JFF.785)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=785 (accessed on May 13, 2025).