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

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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

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(1881–1961). Foley continued her art education at the

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, and spent two years in London at the

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as a pupil of

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(1862–1937). From London, she returned to Hawaii, where she studied with

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from 1934 to 1937. 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 and in Seattle, Washington in 1941–1942. Cornelia Foley died January 18, 2010, in

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. 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

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and the

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in Kansas City, Missouri. A cast concrete outdoor fountain, known as the ''Varhey Circle Fountain'', which she created with Henry H. Rempel, is on the campus of the

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.Wilson, Willard, ''The Campus of Light (An informal look at the University of Hawaii Campus)'' University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1964

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, * Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, ''Art Deco Hawai'i'', Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, , pp. 72–73 * Sandulli, Justin M., ''Troubled Paradise: Madge Tennent at a Hawaiian Crossroads'', Durham, NC: Duke University, 2016

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foley, Cornelia Macintyre Painters from Hawaii 1909 births 2010 deaths American women centenarians Punahou School alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni University of Washington alumni Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art People from Severna Park, Maryland 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters 21st-century American women