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Theme: landscape »
Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
921
Bowman's Hill
1936
Oil on canvas
34 x 50 in. (86.36 x 127 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee
James A. Michener Art Museum. Gift of Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest
Provenance
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1937-46
The Artist, (returned in exchange for Dark Hollow), 1946-72
Estate of the artist, 1972-77
Christopher Wright, 1977
Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Exhibitions
1937 PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 132nd Annual Exhibition, January 24–February 28, 1937, no. 101.
1973 Century
The Century Association, New York, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Folinsbee, 1973, no. 11, lent by Mrs. John Folinsbee.
1977 Newman
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, John F. Folinsbee, 1977, no. 7.
1982 NJSM
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 28, lent by Christopher Wright.
1995 Bianco Gallery PA
Bianco Gallery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Impressionists and Modernists, May 1995.
2011–12 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground, October 22, 2011–April 1, 2012.
2019–20 James A. Michener Art Museum
The James A. Michener Art Musuem, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Impressionism to Modernism: The Lenfest Collection of American Art, September 29, 2019–March 1, 2020.
Published References
Art Digest 1937
"Pennsylvania Academy Buys Living Art." Art Digest 11 (March 15, 1937), p. 10, b/w ill.
Vose 1972
Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1972, #419.
Cook 1977
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. Philadelphia: Newman Galleries, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 4, b/w ill.
Cook 1994
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. New York: Kubaba Books, 1994, p. 90, color ill.
Donohoe 1995
Donohoe, Victoria. "Along the Road from Impressionist to Modernist in Bucks County Gallery Show." Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1995, b/w ill.
Peterson 2002
Peterson, Brian H., ed. Pennsylvania Impressionism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and James A. Michener Art Museum, 2002, p. x-xi, 122, pl. 32, color ill.
Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 89, color ill.; p. 202, color plate 44; p. 264, cat entry.
Michener Art Museum 2020
Brian Peterson. "The Painterly Voice, Buck's County Fertile Ground; Online." A Tale of Two Folinsbees.
Record last updated September 12, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Bowman's Hill, 1936 (JFF.921)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=921 (accessed on April 19, 2024).