Harold Heartt Foley

Harold Heartt Foley (1874 – 1923) was an early twentieth-century American painter, collagist and illustrator.

Harold Heartt Foley
Illustration for The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, 1907
Born
Harold Leroy Livingston

1874
New York City, New York, US
Died1923
Paris, France
NationalityAmerican
Known forClassicism, Impressionism

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
  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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