Harold Heartt Foley

Harold Heartt Foley 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.
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.

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.