Harold Heartt Foley

Harold Heartt Foley

Illustration for The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Born Harold Leroy Livingston
1874
New York City, (United States)
Died 1923
Paris, (France)
Nationality American
Known for Classicism, Impressionism

Harold Heartt Foley was an early twentieth-century American painter, collagist and illustrator.

Youth and education

Born in New York City in 1874, the young Harold Leroy Livingston grew up in an honorable and wealthy family.[1][2] He was a good student of art and quickly became a success as a painter[3] and magazine illustrator.[4] As he was fascinated by European history and arts, he decided to move there.

Europe

In September 1906, in Malta, he married miss Elizabeth Schell-Cragin[5][6] Foley became famous for his drawings for Selma Lagerlöf's book The Wonderful Adventures of Nils published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1907. The couple settled in Paris.

He used to expose his works in the salons in Paris.[7]

Well known in the "American colony",[8] Harold and his wife used to welcome and help American artists living abroad like Arthur Garfield Dove.[9]

Harold Heartt Foley died in Paris in 1923.

See also

References

  1. ↑ His father, George Leroy Livingston and his mother, née Ann Heartt were a high society couple in trouble and after a scandal, his father killed himself. His mother made him change his name to Heartt and then add the name of her second husband : Mr Foley
  2. ↑ http://www.gazlayfamilyhistory.org/book.php?person=5988.
  3. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle from San Francisco, California, May 1, 1899, page 3.
  4. ↑ like the "Mc Clure's Magazine" and Everybody’s Magazine in which he gave shophisticated illustrations for the story "A Japanese Gentleman" by Catharine van Cortland Mathews (February 1903).
  5. ↑ The New York Times, October 4, 1906.
  6. ↑ http://haroldhearttfoley.tumblr.com/image/72657514884.
  7. ↑ "Real art is shown in the Paris salon - Exhibition of the Societe des Beaux Arts One of surpassing interest" in : The New York Times, April 28, 1908
  8. ↑ Lois Marie Fink, American art at the nineteenth-century Paris salons, Cambridge University Press, 1990
  9. ↑ The American Art Journal - volume XX - number 4 - 1988, article by Ann Lee Morgan, School of Art and Design - Chicago
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