American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection

Exhibited

"One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 29-March 19, 1933, no. 63.
"Annual Exhibition," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, October 4-31, 1933.
"Endowment Collection Exhibition," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, October 1934.

Literature

Folinsbee 1920s–40s Stockbook, p. 40.
Houston Texas Post, June 2, 1940 (illustrated).
James M. Alterman, New Hope for American Art, Jim's of Lambertville, Lambertville, 2005, p. 146 (illustrated).
Kirsten M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered, Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, 2013, no. 503, pp. 84 (discussed), 260 (illustrated), 299-300 (listed); also accessible on the Artist's online Catalogue Raisonné at https://www.johnfolinsbee.org/ under no. JFF.503.

Note

Mill Dam, a magnificent winter landscape from one of the most radical years in Folinsbee’s career, illustrates the artist’s shift towards greater simplification and rhythmic compositions, characterized by an abandonment of his earlier impressionistic, fragmented style. Here, Folinsbee applied his paint in large, generous and fluid swaths stretching across the canvas, so as to imitate the rapid flow of water. The restricted yet more grounded color palette also gives the work all its rawness, which garnered Folinsbee respect outside of the Bucks County circle, and among New York’s avant-garde.