Harold Heartt Foley
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Harold Heartt Foley | |
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 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 in Art and quickly became a success as a painter[3] and magazine illustrator. But he was fascinated by European history and arts, and therefore decided to move there.
Europe
In September 1906, in Malta, he married miss Elizabeth Schell-Cragin[4][5] 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.[6]
Well known in the "American colony",[7] Harold and his wife used to welcome and help American artists living abroad like Arthur Garfield Dove.[8]
Harold Heartt Foley died in Paris in 1923.
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 suicide himself. His mother made change his name in Heartt and add then the name of her second husband : Mr Foley.
- ^ http://www.gazlayfamilyhistory.org/book.php?person=5988.
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle from San Francisco, California, May 1, 1899, page 3.
- ^ The New York Times, October 4, 1906.
- ^ http://haroldhearttfoley.tumblr.com/image/72657514884.
- ^ "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