Catalogue entry
990
The Raritan
Alternate title: The Raritan, Winter
1925
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left: John F. Folinsbee
Folinsbee 1920s–40s stockbook: p. [55]
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Richard York Gallery
Sotheby's New York 9/1995, lot 155
John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Jim's of Lambertville, Lambertville, NJ
Private collection, Princeton, NJ
Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 12/06/2009, lot 201
Private collection
Sold, Freeman's Auctioneer's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 6/05/2022, lot 136
Exhibitions
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 24th International Exhibition of Paintings, October 15–December 6, 1925.
National Academy of Design, New York, 101st Annual Exhibition, March 30–April 11, 1926, no. 243.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 20th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, April 25–June 21, 1926, no. 40, as The Raritan, Winter.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 39th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, October 28–December 12, 1926, no. 61.
City Art Museum of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 22nd Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, September 1–October 15, 1927.
New London, Connecticut, [Paintings by John Folinsbee], April–May 1929.
Lehigh University Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 4–18, 1929.
Western Electric Gallery, John Folinsbee, A Retrospective, 1980.
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee: His Changing Landscape and Industrial Modernism, 1981.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 7.
The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, American Impressionism; The New Hope School Circle, 1984–85, no. 7, ill., p. 26, color ill.
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The New Hope Circle, 1985.
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground, October 22, 2011–April 1, 2012.
Published References
Shirey, David. "A Truly American Impressionist." New York Times, March 30, 1980, b/w ill.
Hunter, Sam. American Impressionism: The New Hope Circle. Fort Lauderdale: The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and Richard Stuart Gallery, 1985. Exhibition catalogue, p. 26, color ill.
Record last updated July 7, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""The Raritan, 1925 (JFF.990)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=990 (accessed on May 6, 2024).