Cornelia MacIntyre Foley

Hawaiian Woman in White Holoku by Cornelia MacIntyre Foley, 1937, Honolulu Museum of Art
Varhey Circle Fountain, cast concrete fountain by Henry H. Rempel and Cornelia MacIntyre Foley, 1934, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (1909–2010) was an American painter from Hawaii.

Biography

Cornelia MacIntyre was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She began her art training under the first art instructor 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 to marry 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]

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 Honolulu Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.[2] 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.[3]

References

Footnotes

  1. Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, p. 255
  2. Cornelia MacIntyre Foleyin AskArt.com
  3. Wilson, Willard, The Campus of Light (An informal look at the University of Hawaii Campus) University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1964
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