John Folinsbee. John Fulton Jack Folinsbee was an American landscape, marine and portrait painter, and a 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. He was born in Buffalo, New York, the middle son of Harrison and Louise Mauger Folinsbee.
Beginning at age nine, he attended children's classes at the Art Students' League of Buffalo, but received his first formal training with the landscape painter Jonas Lie in 1907. Folinsbee contracted polio at age 14, which rendered his legs useless, weakened his right arm, and left him permanently wheelchair-bound.
He attended The Gunnery, a boarding school in Washington, Connecticut, from 1907 to 1911, where he studied with Elizabeth Kempton and Herbert Faulkner. He later studied with Birge Harrison and John Carlson at the Woodstock art colony, and with Frank Vincent DuMond at the Art Students League of New York.
At Woodstock, he met Harry Leith-Ross, who became a lifelong friend and later followed him to New Hope. In 1914, Folinsbee married Ruth Baldwin; daughter of William H. Baldwin, Jr. and Ruth Standish Baldwin; whom he had met in Washington, Connecticut. The couple moved to New Hope in 1916, and had two daughters, Elizabeth, married Elmer W. Wiggins, 1940; and Joan, married Pete
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. He was born in Buffalo, New York, the middle son of Harrison and Louise Mauger Folinsbee.
Beginning at age nine, he attended children's classes at the Art Students' League of Buffalo, but received his first formal training with the landscape painter Jonas Lie in 1907. Folinsbee contracted polio at age 14, which rendered his legs useless, weakened his right arm, and left him permanently wheelchair-bound.
He attended The Gunnery, a boarding school in Washington, Connecticut, from 1907 to 1911, where he studied with Elizabeth Kempton and Herbert Faulkner. He later studied with Birge Harrison and John Carlson at the Woodstock art colony, and with Frank Vincent DuMond at the Art Students League of New York.
At Woodstock, he met Harry Leith-Ross, who became a lifelong friend and later followed him to New Hope. In 1914, Folinsbee married Ruth Baldwin; daughter of William H. Baldwin, Jr. and Ruth Standish Baldwin; whom he had met in Washington, Connecticut. The couple moved to New Hope in 1916, and had two daughters, Elizabeth, married Elmer W. Wiggins, 1940; and Joan, married Pete
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