SAL record control number: 135341

Record level: Item ;

Record type: Movable work ;

Work title: Bridge on the Cher  [from collection database] ;

Alternate work titles:
2021 : Bridge on the Cher  [from collection database] ;
1989 : House by river and bridge  [from collection list] ;

Work date: 1929 [from collection database] ;

Work creator: John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972) [RA 1913-1972] ;

Work medium: Oil on canvas on panel ;
Work dimensions: 8-7/8 x 9-7/8 inches [unframed] | 9-3/4 x 11-7/8 x 3/4 inches [framed] ;

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated?: No.
Text: ‘John Folinsbee’.

Verso:

Marking type: Collection number label.
Location: At upper left panel verso and lower right frame verso, vertically.
Text: ‘152’.

Marking type: Salmagundi exhibition label.
Location: At upper left panel verso.
Text: ‘Salmagundi Club / Thumb-box Exhibition / FILL OUT BOTH HALVES PRINT OR WRITE PLAINLY / Artist John Folinsbee [handwritten] / Title Bridge [scratch out] on The Ch[er] [handwritten obscured by rip] / Price $100. [handwritten]’.

SAL category: Oil ;
SAL sub-category: Cityscape ; thumb-box ;

Archives of American Art subjects:
Architecture
Architecture — Bridge
Architecture — Bridge — Cher Bridge
Architecture exterior
Architecture exterior — Domestic
Architecture exterior — Domestic — House
Art
Art — American
Art ― Private collections ― New York (State)
Art ― Private collections ― New York (State) ― Salmagundi
Cityscape
Cityscape — France — Loir-et-Cher
Waterscape
Waterscape — River

Description of work:

Provenance:
1930 SCNY, Charles Vezin (1858-1942) Prize, 1911-1932, 1944-1948, 1949-1950, accession #2006.25 ;
1929 John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972) [RA 1913-1972], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2021 SCNY Small & mighty : newly conserved thumb-box November 10 – December 31.
1930 SCNY thumb-box exhibition February 16.

References / citations:
– 2021 collection database, accession #2006.25.
– 1989 collection list, accession #O-10.

Notes:
– Vezin prize painting for 1930.
– M. Norman Price frame.
– Title from the artist’s log book and label on verso.
– The Cher Bridge is in Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France.

Document information

Document permalink:
http://salmagundi.org/artwork/?p=135341

Digital-born document number:
SAL.2022.135341

Record birth date:
August 24, 2022

Last updated: July 12, 2023 at 11:42 am