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1890 Chicago, Illinois - 1963 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Figure, genre, portrait and still life painting.
Born in Chicago, Frances Foy had a successful career there as a painter in oil and watercolor and etcher, printmaker and muralist. She also traveled widely including to Sweden, France, Germany, and... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Frances Foy had a successful career there as a painter in oil and watercolor and etcher, printmaker and muralist. She also traveled widely including to Sweden, France, Germany, and Italy. Foy studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and with George Bellows... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Frances Foy had a successful career there as a painter in oil and watercolor and etcher, printmaker and muralist. She also traveled widely including to Sweden, France, Germany, and Italy. Foy studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and with George Bellows and Randall Davey and later exhibited in a one-person show at the Institute as well as in annual Institute exhibitions from 1929 through 1940. When she was a student at the Institute, she was awarded... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Frances Foy had a successful career there as a painter in oil and watercolor and etcher, printmaker and muralist. She also traveled widely including to Sweden, France, Germany, and Italy. Foy studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and with George Bellows and Randall Davey and later exhibited in a one-person show at the Institute as well as in annual Institute exhibitions from 1929 through 1940. When she was a student at the Institute, she was awarded the Jules F. Brower Prize and the Frank G. Logan Prize. During the Depression, she won an anonymous competition to have a commission from the U.S. Treasury Department Section of the Fine Arts, followed by four other commissions, for improvements to... Read full biography
Born in Chicago, Frances Foy had a successful career there as a painter in oil and watercolor and etcher, printmaker and muralist. She also traveled widely including to Sweden, France, Germany, and Italy. Foy studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and with George Bellows and Randall Davey and later exhibited in a one-person show at the Institute as well as in annual Institute exhibitions from 1929 through 1940. When she was a student at the Institute, she was awarded the Jules F. Brower Prize and the Frank G. Logan Prize. During the Depression, she won an anonymous competition to have a commission from the U.S. Treasury Department Section of the Fine Arts, followed by four other commissions, for improvements to public buildings in East Alton, Illinois; West Allis, Wisconsin; Dunkirk, Indiana. and Chicago at the Chestnut Street Postal Station... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •George Bellows
- •Randall Davey
- •Wellington Reynolds
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Frank Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
- •Logan Medal of the Arts, Society of Western Art
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Illinois Women Artists Project, Listed
- •Married to an Artist
- •Mural Specialty
- •Post Office Mural Painter, WPA Treasury Relief Art Project
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art