Cornelia MacIntyre Foley
Cornelia MacIntyre Foley | |
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University of Hawaii | |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking, sculpture |
| Movement | Hawaiian modernism |
Cornelia MacIntyre Foley was an American painter from Hawaii.
Biography
Cornelia MacIntyre was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She began her art training under the first art instructor the
Slade School of Art as a pupil of Henry Tonks (1862–1937). From London, she returned to Hawaii, where she studied with Madge Tennent from 1934 to 1937 and subsequently married Lieutenant Paul Foley (who became a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy). During 1937–1941, the couple lived in Long Beach, CA and in Seattle, Washington in 1941–1942. Cornelia Foley died January 18, 2010, in Severna Park, Maryland.[1]
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Foley is best known for her voluptuous paintings of Hawaiian women, such as Hawaiian Woman in White Holoku from 1937. Major paintings by Foley are held by the
University of Hawaii at Manoa.[3]
References
- Congdon-Martin, Douglas, Aloha Spirit, Hawaiian Art and Popular Design, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1998, pp. 166–168
- Falk, Peter Hastings, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Vol III, Sounds View Press, Madison CT, 1999, p. 3724.
- Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 255.
- Hughes, Edan, Artists in California 1786-1940, Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002, p. 637.
- Morse, Morse (ed.), Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003, p. 18, ISBN 0-937426-58-X
- Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, Art Deco Hawai'i, Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, ISBN 978-0-937426-89-0, pp. 72–73
- Sandulli, Justin M., Troubled Paradise: Madge Tennent at a Hawaiian Crossroads, Durham, NC: Duke University, 2016
Footnotes
- ^ Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, p. 255
- ^ Cornelia MacIntyre Foleyin AskArt.com
- ^ Wilson, Willard, The Campus of Light (An informal look at the University of Hawaii Campus) University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1964
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