John Fulton Folinsbee (American, 1892–1972) Mother and Daughter (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife and Daughter)

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• Lot Description
  John Fulton Folinsbee (American, 1892–1972) Mother and Daughter (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife and Daughter)

  Signed and dated 'John Folinsbee-/Mar. 1917-' bottom right, oil on canvas
  30 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. (76.5 x 61.3cm)

  
  
  

  Provenance

  Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania.
  Acquired directly from the above in 1982 through Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee (the Artist's widow).
  Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

  
  
  Footnote:

  Exhibited

  "The Paintings of John Folinsbee," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 2 (as Mother and Child (Ruth and Beth).

  "The Pennsylvania Impressionists: An American Tradition," Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 6–August 15, 1998; also Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, January–February 22, 1998; also Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, March 28–May 10, 1998 (traveling exhibition).

  Literature

  Brian H. Peterson, Pennsylvania Impressionism, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown and University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 128, no. 41 (illustrated, as Artist's Wife and Child).

  Kirsten M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered, Hudson Hills Press, Manchester 2013, p. 281, fig. 3, cat. no. 834 (illustrated).

  Note

  John Folinsbee and his wife Ruth Baldwin welcomed their first baby, Elizabeth, in February 1917. The present work depicts the artist's wife holding baby Beth in her arms, shortly after her birth. Because he had contracted polio seven years earlier, Folinsbee did not think he could have children. The present painting, Mrs. Peltz' favorite, proves the contrary in a triumphant manner, and showcases the artist's burgeoning love and tenderness for his newborn daughter. The family would welcome a second daughter, Joan, two years later in July 1919.

  While Folinsbee preferred to paint landscapes, he executed some portraits, mostly of the people he loved or revered. The present work, the artist's first-known portrait, is an important example; several other double portraits of his two daughters would follow, as well as his famous portrait of his once master, Edward Redfield, two years before his death (1964, Private Collection).

  
  
  Condition report:

  Frame: 38 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.

  The relined canvas in overall good condition, with hairline craquelure mostly visible in the upper tier of the painting (close to the woman's hair and in the background in general). With two small remnants of what appears to be old board stuck to the canvas at upper left (on the woman's hair and her cheek): both are unobtrusive. Examination under UV light reveals small remnants of old greenish varnish in localized areas (on the signature, to protect it, as well as in some part of the background at upper right). With a small area of inpainting at bottom left, along the left outer edge of the canvas. Small pinpoint dots of retouching at center, on the woman's dress. We also notice that some of the hairline cracks running through the woman's air have been carefully, lightly inpainted. See specialist's pictures under UV light.

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