Harold Heartt Foley
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Harold Heartt Foley | |
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 Illustration for The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, 1907 | |
| Born | Harold Leroy Livingston 1874 New York City, New York, US |
| Died | 1923 Paris, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Classicism, Impressionism |
Harold Heartt Foley (1874 – 1923) 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] The influence of Howard Pyle and Arthur Rackham are obvious in many works during the period 1900–1910.[5] He aspired to participate at The Golden Age of Illustration generation. As he was fascinated by European history and arts, he decided to move there.[6]
Europe
In September 1906, in Malta, he married miss Elizabeth Schell-Cragin[7][8] Foley became famous as Harold Heartt for his illustration of 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.[9]
Well known in the "American colony",[10] Harold and his wife used to welcome and help American artists living abroad like Arthur Garfield Dove.[11]
Harold Heartt Foley died in Paris in 1923 and was buried in Montparnasse cemetery.[12]
See also
References
- ^ 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
- ^ "Gazlay Family History | Error".
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle from San Francisco, California, May 1, 1899, page 3.
- ^ like the McClure'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).
- ^ Several books and magazines illustrated by these artists are in the list of the books of his particular library in Paris, cf Elisabeth Schell Cragin papers, private collection.
- ^ Elisabeth Schell Cragin papers, private collection.
- ^ The New York Times, October 4, 1906.
- ^ "Photo".
- ^ "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
- ^ Lois Marie Fink, American art at the nineteenth-century Paris salons, Cambridge University Press, 1990
- ^ The American Art Journal – volume XX – number 4 – 1988, article by Ann Lee Morgan, School of Art and Design – Chicago
- ^ Heartt tomb, Montparnasse cemetery, division 15 (high), alley 1 (way).
External links
- HaroldHearttFoley blog at Tumblr
- Harold Heartt at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalog records
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