John Folinsbee Oil Painting of River Scene with Bridge

Item Details

John Fulton Folinsbee (Pennsylvania/Maine; 1892 – 1972)
Untitled (landscape)
Oil painting canvas
Signed to lower right

A landscape oil painting on canvas by well-listed American artist John Fulton Folinsbee (Pennsylvania/Maine; 1892 – 1972). This painting depicts a small river traversed by an arched bridge, within a wooded landscape. The work is signed to the lower right corner. It is presented in an angled wooden frame with gold tone finish and is equipped with a hanging wire to the verso.

John Fulton Folinsbee is known for his Impressionist landscape paintings and was a member of the New Hope artist colony in Pennsylvania. His first formal art training began with artist Jonas Lie at the age of fifteen. He went on to study at the Gunnery School in Connecticut and The Arts Students’ League in New York. During summers spent in Woodstock, New York he studied under Birge Harrison and John Carlson. It was there he met Harry (Tony) Leith-Ross, who became a lifelong friend and a fellow member of New Hope. In the 1920’s Folinsbee began closely studying the work of Cezanne, and his work shifted from his tonalist style to a more structured impressionist style, eventually leading to the more expressive, emotional works of his later career. Folinsbee’s works reside in prominent museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Condition

- scattered craquelure with areas of lift; small areas of paint loss across upper edge and to lower left corner; light accretion; accretion and wear to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 27.25" W x 19.25" H.

Item #

19CIN023-510