American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection

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The present work will be added to the online Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist's work.

Rabbit Run Bridge is a popular subject which Folinsbee completed several times, namely in a 30 x 40 in. canvas of 1932 (Freeman's, sale of December 5, 2010, lot 116), which earned him a new reputation as the new New Hope Modernist, an "adroid, handled" painter whose compositions revealed a "nice economy of composition and stroke" and "show[ed] the power of the artist" according to critic Dorothy Graftly who singled out the larger version of the same subject during her review of the Phillips' Mill exhibition in New Hope. This specific work takes after a composition from 1927-28. Judging from its bold impasto and solid colors, however, the work likely dates from the mid-to-late 1930s.