Harold Heartt Foley Explained
| Harold Heartt Foley |
| Birth Name: | Harold Leroy Livingston |
| Birth Date: | 1874 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York, US |
| Death Date: | 1923 |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | 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 a 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 is obvious in many of his works during the period 1900–1910.[5] He aspired to participate in 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 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.
In 1908 he exhibited his works in the Paris Salon.[9]
Well known in the "American colony",[10] Harold and his wife welcomed and helped American artists living abroad, such as Arthur Dove.[11]
Harold Heartt Foley died in Paris in 1923 and was buried in Montparnasse cemetery.[12]
See also
Notes and 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
- Web site: 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.
- Web site: 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).
