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Theme: landscape »
Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
893
River Ice
c.1936
Oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 40 in. (81.915 x 101.6 cm)
Unsigned
Label on verso: Property of John F. Folinsbee Art Trust; label on verso, signed "John Folinsbee, River Ice"
Provenance
Collection of Stephen Cook; entered present collection in 1999 as a gift.
John F. Folinsbee Art Trust
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Exhibitions
1977 Newman
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee, 1977, no. 9.
1990 Newman
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course, March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 60.
1994 Newman
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John Folinsbee: Another View, April 8–30, 1994, no. 61.
1995 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, A Retrospective, March 25–June 18, 1995, no. 23.
1999 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Visual Heritage of Bucks County, 1999.
2001 BMS Gallery
Bristol, Myers, Squibb Gallery, The Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists, 2001.
2004 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Earth, River, and Light: Masterworks of Pennsylvania Impressionism, 2004. Traveled to: Florence Griswold Museum, 2003; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, 2003; Greenville County Museum of Art, 2004 (Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions).
2011–12 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground, October 22, 2011–April 1, 2012.
2015a James A. Michener Art Museum
online, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Google Art Project.
Published References
Cook 1977
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. Philadelphia: Newman Galleries, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 14, b/w ill.
Stricker 1990
Stricker, Michele Pavon. John Folinsbee: Following His Own Course. Philadelphia: Newman Galleries, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, color ill.
Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 104, color ill.; p. 264, cat entry.
Record last updated April 8, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""River Ice, c.1936 (JFF.893)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=893 (accessed on April 19, 2024).