$22,000
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 14, 2020 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed and dated 'John F. Folinsbee 1913' bottom right, oil on board
8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (21 x 26cm)
Provenance
The Artist.
(Possibly) to Frances Clark, Pasadena, California in 1913.
By descent in the family.
Private Collection, Huntington Beach, California.
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, sale of April 29, 2010, lot 240.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Jim's of Lambertville, Lambertville, New Jersey.
Acquired directly from the above.
Collection of Heidi Bingham Stott, Florida.
Literature
The Artist's Stockbook, 1912-1920s, p. 15.
Kirsten M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered, Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, 2013, no. 1399, p. 224 (illustrated).
Note
According to the Artist's Catalogue Raisonné, "Although his primary subject was landscape, Folinsbee was fascinated with scenes of everyday life whose arrangement presented interesting pictorial possibilities - in this case, the swags of the white circus tent juxtaposed against the bright orange of the wagons and supporting poles. As in so many of his paintings, the people here are perfunctory, merely a means to achieving a sense of movement and balanced design. The same scene appeared as the illustration for the month of July in a miniature catalogue in pen and watercolor that Folinsbee gave to his wife Ruth, in 1916."