Harold Heartt Foley
Harold Heartt Foley (1878–1923) was an early-twentieth-century American painter, collagist and illustrator.
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Harold Heartt Foley
Harold Heartt Foley (1874-1923) · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils · Public domain
- Name
- Harold Heartt Foley
- Birth Name
- Harold Leroy Livingston
- Born
- 1878
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, US
- Died
- 1923
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Field
- Classicism, Impressionism
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- Classicism
- Known for
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Harold Heartt Foley (1878–1923) was an early-twentieth-century American painter, collagist and illustrator.
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Harold Heartt Foley (1874–1923) was an American painter. Born in New York City, the painter died in Paris. Harold Heartt Foley was active in Classicism. Works include The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.
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• Name — Harold Heartt Foley • Birth Name — Harold Leroy Livingston • Born — 1878 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, US • Died — 1923 • Place of death — Paris, France • Field — Classicism, Impressionism
Youth and education
Youth and education
Born in New York City in 1878, the young Harold Leroy Livingston grew up in a wealthy family. He was a good student of art and quickly became a success as a painter and magazine illustrator. The influence of Howard Pyle and Arthur Rackham is obvious in many of his works during the period 1900–1910. 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.
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Europe
In September 1906, in Malta, he married Elizabeth Schell-Cragin. 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. Well known in the "American colony", Harold and his wife welcomed and helped American artists living abroad, such as Arthur Dove. Harold Heartt Foley died in Paris in 1923 and was buried in Montparnasse cemetery.
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- 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.Gazlay Family History | Error.
- 3.San Francisco Chronicle from San Francisco, California, May 1, 1899, page 3.
- 4.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).
- 5.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.
- 6.Elisabeth Schell Cragin papers, private collection.
- 7.The New York Times, October 4, 1906.
- 8.Photo.
- 9."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
- 10.Lois Marie Fink, American art at the nineteenth-century Paris salons, Cambridge University Press, 1990
- 11.The American Art Journal – volume XX – number 4 – 1988, article by Ann Lee Morgan, School of Art and Design – Chicago
- 12.Heartt tomb, Montparnasse cemetery, division 15 (high), alley 1 (way).
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