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814
Grey Thaw
Alternate title: Gray Thaw
1920
Oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 40 1/2 in. (81.915 x 102.87 cm)
Signed lower left: John F. Folinsbee; on the frame, verso, John Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1912–20s stockbook: p. 173, 174
In the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund. 21.7
Exhibitions
1920 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 95th Annual Exhibition, April 6–May 9, 1920, no. 214.
1920 AIC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 31st Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, November 4–December 12, 1920, no. 45, as Gray Thaw.
1921 PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 116th Annual Exhibition, February 6–March 26, 1921, no. 304.
1921 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 7th Annual Exhibition of American Art, April 20–May 31, 1921, no. 43, as Gray Thaw.
1921 Toledo
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 10th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, June–August 1921, no. 136.
1921–22 Corcoran
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 8th Biennial Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, December 18, 1921–January 22, 1922, no. 42, Awarded the Third William A. Clark Prize.
1939–40 AIC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, American Exhibition 50th Annual, Half a Century of American Art, 1888?1938, November 16, 1939–January 7, 1940, no. 57, as Gray Thaw, lent by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
1982 NJSM
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 8.
1984 Allentown Museum PA
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania, An Original American Impression, 1984.
Published References
Cook 1994
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. New York: Kubaba Books, 1994, p. 64, color ill.
Reed 1994
Reed, Melissa A. "John Folinsbee: A Traditional Painter Amidst Modernist Trends." Yale University, 1994, fig. 12.
Cash 2011
Cash, Sara, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2011, p. 296, b/w ill.
Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 50, color ill.; p. 235, cat entry.
Record last updated April 22, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Grey Thaw, 1920 (JFF.814)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=814 (accessed on April 29, 2024).