Margaret Foley
| Margaret Foley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret Foley 1827 Vermont, USA |
| Died | 1877 Merano, Austria-Hungary |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Self-taught |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Notable work | Cleopatra, 1876 Marble Relief of Pasuccia, 1865 |
Margaret F. Foley (1827–1877) was an American sculptor.
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Early years
Born in northern Vermont in 1827, Margaret Foley was a self-taught sculptor. She began whittling and carving in the rural city of Vergennes, Vermont, where she grew up.[1] The daughter of a farmhand, Foley worked as a maid in order to afford her schooling, and later became a schoolteacher.[2] Foley traveled to Lowell, MA to work in a textile mills as a mill girl, but moved to Boston in 1848 to work as cameo portrait artist.[1]
Career
In 1860, with the assistance of a Vermont politician who recognized her talent, she emigrated to Rome to study and grow her career as a sculptor.[2] Here, she began to sculpt large marble medallion portraits—for example, a portrait of the poet William Cullen Bryant—as well as portrait busts in the round, such as the 1877 bust of Theodore Parker. She also sculpted biblical and historical subjects such as Jeremiah and Cleopatra, both of which were exhibited at the main Memorial Hall of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Foley also exhibited a large fountain at the Exposition's Horticultural Hall, consisting of three children supporting a marble basin adorned with acanthus leaves (now in the Fairmount Park Horticultural Center, Philadelphia, PA).[1]
Death
Despite gaining many commissions and praise for her "crisply delineated, noble style", Foley was suffering from a debilitating neurological illness, which would eventually take her life in 1877.[1]
Works
- Aboliltionist, 1860
- Mrs. William Greenleaf Eliot, marble relief, 1864[3]
- Marble Relief of Pasuccia, 1865[4]
- William Cullen Bryant, 1867[5]
- Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. E.H.R. Lyman, 1868
- Group of the Infant Bacchus with a Kid, 1871
- Portrait Relief in Profile, 1874
- Fountain, Centennial Exposition, Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, 1874-1876[6]
- Cleopatra, 1876[7]
- Bust of Theodore Parker, 1877
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'Jenny Lind' by Margaret F. Foley, 1869, High Museum.JPG
Jenny Lind (1869), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Cleopatra.jpg
Cleopatra (1876), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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