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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
1925 Carnegie
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 24th International Exhibition of Paintings, October 15–December 6, 1925.1926 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 101st Annual Exhibition, March 30–April 11, 1926, no. 243.1926 Albright-Knox Buffalo
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.1926 AIC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 39th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, October 28–December 12, 1926, no. 61.1927 Saint Louis
City Art Museum of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 22nd Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, September 1–October 15, 1927.1929 New London CT
New London, Connecticut, [Paintings by John Folinsbee], April–May 1929.1929 Lehigh University PA
Lehigh University Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 4–18, 1929.1980 Western Electric Gallery
Western Electric Gallery, John Folinsbee, A Retrospective, 1980.1981 Richard Stuart
Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, John Folinsbee: His Changing Landscape and Industrial Modernism, 1981.1982 NJSM
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 7.1984–85 Fort Lauderdale Museum
The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, American Impressionism; The New Hope School Circle, 1984–85, no. 7, ill., p. 26, color ill.1985 Fort Lauderdale Museum
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The New Hope Circle, 1985.2011–12 Michener
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground, October 22, 2011–April 1, 2012.Published References
Shirey 1980
Shirey, David. "A Truly American Impressionist." New York Times, March 30, 1980, b/w ill.Hunter 1985
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.Jensen 2013
Jensen, Kirsten M. Folinsbee Considered. Hudson Hills Press, 2013, p. 246, cat entry.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 April 18, 2024).