Folinsbee Considered

John Fulton Folinsbee was a very successful artist virtually from the time he started painting, fresh out of school, in 1915. He had successful solo shows, New York City Gallery representation, juried awards at national level exhibitions and many major museums across the country acquiring his works. By the 1930s he was considered one of the leading artists of his generation along with names such as Leon Kroll and Thomas Hart Benton. By the 1950s however, Folinsbee's career was in commercial decline and his work has been overlooked by art critics and historians through most of the rest of the 20th Century. It is an a regional (New Hope) Impressionist that he is still best known, though his transition to an Expressionist style is perhaps the most intriguing and least explored of the large body of work he created right up to his death in 1972. AUTHOR: Kirsten M. Jensen, PhD is the Director of the John F. Follinsbee Catalogue Raisonné project. She has a Master's degree in American history and a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specialised in late 19th and early 20th-century American art and culture. SELLING POINTS: ?The first full art historical look at the work of John Fulton Folinsbee, a major figure in the New Hope school of American Impressionists ILLUSTRATIONS: 419 colour illustrations