John Folinsbee studied at the Art Students League with John F. Carlson and Birge Harrison, and was a member of he National Academy, Century Association, and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art. Exhibition venues included the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Folinsbee owned a summer house and swimming pond on Westport Island, Maine. (Redfield owned a summer house in Boothbay Harbor.) He painted from a boat on the Sheepscot River and out to sea as far as Seguin Island, off the mouth of the Kennebec River.  “Squall”, pictured here, is a Sheepscot scene, with a strong onshore wind and two boats pitching wildly.

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Neville’s artwork resides in numerous private and institutional collections.  Among numerous awards, he is an honorary life member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia.

Solo Exhibitions:

• 1993 – South Street Seaport Museum, New York City
• 1989 – Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS
• 1988 – Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
• 1987 – Great George Street Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
• 1980 – University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB

Group Exhibitions:

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An accomplished still-life and figure painter, Mr. Johnston has nonetheless concentrated on landscape painting for much of the past decade.  His search for subject matter has led him to France, Mexico, and most recently to Maine, where he spends a portion of each year.

Though basically a realist, he also incorporates elements of impressionism in his work.  Most notable among these is his insistence on working from life in the plein air manner.  He believes that only by working in this manner can he achieve the true color and subtlety seen in nature.

Mr. Johnston is represented by galleries in Cleveland, San Francisco, Boston, as well as by this gallery, and maintains his own website.  His work appears in many private and corporate collections, including those of Key Bank and the Cleveland Clinic

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A long-time watercolorist, Murphy returned to working in oils at the urging of his wife, Diane, when the couple visited Cape Breton Island in 1997. A trail runner, he often scouts out remote areas on foot and returns with canvas and paint to record his relationship with the location. He says he has found his most stimulating and satisfying painting experiences in the wooded or coastal areas of Cape Cod and Maine, and especially in the hill towns around his home in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

The Gallery carries a number of works by Murphy, and he maintains a website of his own.

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Sprinchorn’s papers reside at the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono.  The Carl Sprinchorn Admiration Society presents further biographical information online.

Mount Chase, depicted here, sits to the northeast of Mount Katahdin and Baxter State Park.  It is the nearest major peak to the town of Patten, where Sprinchorn painted for much of his life.

Exhibited:

• Armory Show, 1913
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
• Corcoran Gallery
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Knoedler Gallery
• Macbeth Gallery

Collections:

• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Portland Museum of Art
• Phillips Memorial Gallery
• RISD
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• High Museum of Art
• New Britain Museum

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