Cornelia MacIntyre Foley
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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 |
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.
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.
