Nationality American | Died 1923, Paris, France | |
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Full Name Harold Leroy Livingston Born 1874 New York City, (United States) | ||
Harold Heartt Foley was an early twentieth-century American painter, collagist and illustrator.
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Youth and education
Born in New York City in 1874, the young Harold Leroy Livingston grew up in an honorable and wealthy family. He was a good student of art and quickly became a success as a painter and magazine illustrator. As he was fascinated by European history and arts, he decided to move there.
Europe
In September 1906, in Malta, he married miss Elizabeth Schell-Cragin 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.
Well known in the "American colony", Harold and his wife used to welcome and help American artists living abroad like Arthur Garfield Dove.
Harold Heartt Foley died in Paris in 1923.