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Keywords

Locations:
- New Hope / Lambertville / Trenton »
Stylistic:
- Early Impressionism »
Subjects:
- Delaware River / Canal Scenes »
- Industrial Scenes »
- Winter scenes »
Time-frames:
- 1912-1919 »

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Classification: painting »

Theme: landscape »

Medium: Oil »

Support: on canvas »

JFF.860

Breaking Ice

1916

Oil on canvas

12 x 16 in. (30.48 x 40.64 cm)

Signed lower right: John F. Folinsbee

Private collection

Provenance

Doyle, New York, 12/1989, lot 167

Private collection

Exhibitions

1921 Salmagundi

Salmagundi Club, New York, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Auction Sale, 1921, no. 27.

2001 BMS Gallery

Bristol, Myers, Squibb Gallery, The Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists, 2001.

Published References

Alterman, James M. "Pennsylvania Impressionists & Modernists." American Art Review 13 (October 2001), p. 215, color ill.

Peterson, Brian. Up the River: The Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists. Princeton, NJ: The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, p. [11], color ill.

Alterman, James M. New Hope for American Art. Jim's of Lambertville, 2005, p. 143, color ill.

Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 230, 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. ""Breaking Ice, 1916 (JFF.860)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=860 (accessed on May 1, 2025).