About John Folinsbee

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    The following information, was submitted by Kirsten M. Jensen, PhD, Director of the John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonne. The text below is Jensen's submission to Wikipedia.

    John Fulton Folinsbee (March 14, 1892-May 10, 1972) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of New Hope and Lambertville, New Jersey, particularly the factories, quarries, and canals along the Delaware River.

    Folinsbee was born in 1892 in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he attended classes at the Art Students' League of Buffalo, but received his first formal training in with the landscape painter Jonas Lie when he was fifteen. Between 1907 and 1911, h...

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