John Fulton Folinsbee Original Oil on Canvas Board. New England Dock with Boats. In simple wood frame 15"x18 1/2"x1/2". Weight 2 pds. John Fulton Folinsbee was a landscape painter and leading member of the circle of artists known as the New Hope School of American Impressionism. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1892, Folinsbee began his artistic training with Jonas Lie in 1907. From 1912 through 1914, he attended the Art Students League Summer sessions in Woodstock, New York, where he studied landscape painting with Birge Harrison and John Carlson. In 1914, he attended the schools main campus in New York City where he studied with Frank Dumond. Folinsbee was the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Isadore Prize, Salmagundi Club, 1920; Bronze Medal and Third Clark Prize, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1912; First Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, 1923; Philadelphia Sketch Club Medal, 1923; Charles Noel Flagg Prize, Connecticut Academy of Fine Art; Bronze Medal, Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926; Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1931; First Altman Prize, National Academy of Design, 1941 and 1950; Grand Central Gallery Landscape Prize, 1944; and Century Association Medal in 1951 and 1963.He became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1928 and also held memberships in Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, and Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. John Folinsbees paintings are in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and the Art Museum of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, among many others.

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