Catalogue entry
864
Mother and Daughter
Alternate title: Mother and Child (Ruth and Beth)
1917
Oil on canvas
32 x 26 1/2 in. (81.28 x 67.31 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee/Mar, 1917
Private collection
Provenance
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania
Collection of Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee to 1982; entered present collection in 1982.
Stuart and Virginia Peltz, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Freeman's Auction; American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz; December 5, 2021, lot 65
Private collection
Exhibitions
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 2, as Mother and Child (Ruth and Beth).
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Impressionists: An American Tradition, June 6–August 15, 1998. Traveled to: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, January–February 22, 1998; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, March 28–May 10, 1998.
Published References
Peterson, Brian H., ed. Pennsylvania Impressionism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and James A. Michener Art Museum, 2002, p. 129, color plate 41, as Mother and Child (Ruth and Beth).
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 281, color ill., chronology.
Notes
A portrait of Folinsbee's wife, Ruth Baldwin, and their first daughter Beth, painted shortly after her birth. Because of his contraction of polio seven years earlier, Folinsbee had been told that he could never have children. This painting provides triumphant evidence to the contrary.
Record last updated February 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Mother and Daughter, 1917 (JFF.864)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=864 (accessed on April 16, 2024).