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Oncoming Clouds
Oncoming Clouds

Oncoming Clouds

Artist John Fulton Folinsbee American, 1892–1972
Datecirca 1918
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 12 1/4 × 16 1/8 in. (31.1 × 41 cm)
frame: 13 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (34.9 × 44.5 × 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.28.2.35
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated United States; collection of the artist; [sale, Salmagundi Club, New York, April 13–19, 1918]; Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, Raleigh, NC, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesRobert F. Phifer Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), illus. (b-w)16. Alexander W. Katlan, The Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1889 to 1939 (New York: Salmagundi Club, 2008), listed 238. Kirsten M. Jensen, “Catalogue of Selected Landscape and Genre Paintings,” in Folinsbee Considered (Easthampton, MA: Hudson Hills Press for The John F. Folinsbee Art Trust, 2013), listed as no. 1445, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Salmagundi Club, “Annual Exhibition and Auction Sale of Pictures,” April 13–19, 1918, no. 49a.
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