Cornelia MacIntyre Foley
American painter (1909–2010)
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Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (1909–2010), was a Hawaiian-born American painter, and illustrator.[1][2][3][4] Foley is best known for her voluptuous paintings of Hawaiian women, such as Hawaiian Woman in White Holoku from 1937.
January 31, 1909
Cornelia MacIntyre Foley | |
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Self portrait, 1934 | |
| Born | Cornelia MacIntyre January 31, 1909 Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (now Hawaii) |
| Died | January 18, 2010 (aged 100) Severna Park, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, Madge Tennent, Henry Tonks |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking, sculpture |
| Movement | Hawaiian modernism |
| Spouse | Paul Foley |
Early life and education
Cornelia MacIntyre was born on January 31, 1909, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (now Hawaii, U.S.). Her great grandfather was Edwin O. Hall, a printmaker who sailed to the islands with a group of New England missionaries.[5]
She began her art training under the first art instructor at the University of Hawaii, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens (1881–1961). Foley continued her art education at the University of Washington, and spent two years in London at 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.
Career
Subsequently, she married Lieutenant Paul Foley (who became a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy). During 1937–1941, the couple lived in Long Beach, California; in Seattle, Washington in 1941–1942; and followed by Newport, Rhode Island.[6]
Foley died January 18, 2010, in Severna Park, Maryland.[7]
Major paintings by Foley are held by the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.[8]
A cast concrete outdoor fountain, known as the Varhey Circle Fountain, which she created with Henry H. Rempel, is on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.[9]