Frances Foy

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  • Frances
  • Foy
  • Frances Dalstrom
  • Foy
  • Gustaf Dalstrom married 1923
  • Lars M. Dalstrom (circa 1931-?)
  • April 11, 1890
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • 1963
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • raised in Oak Park, Illinois

    1950: 2637 Dayton St, Chicago, Illinois
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Etcher, Muralist, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • summer program Chicago Academy of Fine Arts; student of Wellington J. Reynolds while in high school
    evening classes at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Wellington J. Reynolds, George Bellows (1919-1920), Randall Davey (1919-1920) and Fred Schook
    learned etching at Hull House.
  • Ireland with her mother

    1928 Europe with husband, Frances Strain, Fred Biesel, Hazel & Vin Hannell for a year

    New Mexico
  • Array
  • 1925-1938: Annual Exhibition, Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    February 4-March 14, 1926: Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait

    October 1927: Academy of Fine Arts exhibit, Romany Club, Chicago, Illinois [arranged by Tennessee Anderson]

    1927: Chicago Woman's Aid Club, Chicago, Illinois

    1928: Autumn Exhibition, Stevens Hotel, Chicago, Illinois

    1928: Playhouse Theater, Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    July 18-October 11, 1929: Paintings by Macena Barton, Claude Buck, Gustaf O. Dalstrom, Frances M Foy, Eda Sterchi, and William S Schwartz, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Paris Cheese Vender; City Roofs; St. Medard’s; Clock Shelf; Portrait of Beatrice Levy; Cineraria; Lunch on the Grass, Still Life

    1929: Chicago Society of Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    February 7-March 10, 1929: Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Boating

    October 24- December 8, 1929: The Forty-Second Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Picnic in Sweden

    1930s: The Ten, at Marshall Field Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    January 29-March 1, 1931: Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Iron Plant; Picnickers Leaving the Park; Still Life with Dog

    October 29-December 13, 1931: The Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Beach Party; Visitors

    January 28-March 20, 1932: Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Betty; Girls Playing Ball; Portrait; Summer Afternoon

    January 12-February 12, 1933: Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Baby at a Party; Portrait of Inez Cunningham

    May 23-October 31, 1933: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Betty, 1930, oil on canvas; 26 x 30”

    1933: Paintings & Prints By Chicago Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

    1933: Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois [solo]

    February 1-March 18, 1934:Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Park Supper; Portrait

    March 29-April 29, 1934: Thirteenth International Water Color Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Flowers

    June 1-November 1, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Visitors, 1930, oil on Masonite; 34 x 22”

    1934: International Exhibition of Contemporary Prints

    January 31-March 10, 1935: Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Summer Storm

    March 21-June 2, 1935: Fourteenth Annual International Exhibition of Water Colors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Trilliums

    May 1935: Delphic Studios, New York, New York; toured in 1936 to New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; Delaware, Ohio; Bemidji, Minnesota; Rockford, Illinois

    1935: Annual Exhibition of American art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Estella Arranging Tulips, 1935

    January 30-March 1, 1936: Fortieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Cabbage

    1936: Chicago New Century Committee exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

    1937: The Ten: The Hostess

    1937 Annual Exhibition of American art,  The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:

    March 17-April 17, 1938: Forty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Afternoon Coffee; Girl with Cat

    October 28-December 4, 1938: Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Midnight Concert

    1938: Chicago Society of Artists Club, Club Women's Bureau, Mandel Brothers Store, Chicago, Illinois

    1939: Riverside Museum, New York, New York

    November 16, 1939-January 7, 1940: Half a Century of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Estella Arranging Tulips, 1935, 28 x 36”

    April 25-May 26, 1940: 19th Annual International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Flowers

    March 11-April 25, 1943: Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Strawberry Print; 28 x 36”

    January 27-March 5, 1944: Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Fortune Teller’s House

    1945: Chicago Society of Artists exhibit, Riverside Museum, New York, New York: etchings

    March 28-May 12, 1946: Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Callas, watercolor

    June 17-August 15, 1948: Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Hallowe’en, oil

    February 10-March 20, 1949: Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Bridle Path, oil; Mushroom, watercolor

    February 12-26, 1957: 1957 Chicago Artists No-Jury Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois: Autumn Bouquet; Cat in the Window

    June 14-29, 1958: 1958 Chicago Artists Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois: Keeper of the Glass

    Walden Gallery

    Increase Robinson Gallery, Chicago
  • Bridges Collection, Chicago

    Augustana College Collection, Rock Island, IL
  • Bulliet , C. J. “Artists of Chicago Past and Present No. 27: Frances Foy.” Chicago Daily News, August 24, 1935. Foy, Frances. “Statement.” In J. Z. Jacobson. Art of Today: Chicago, 1933, 64. Chicago: L. M. Stein, 1932. Greenhouse, Wendy, and Susan Weininger. Chicago Painting 1895–1945: The Bridges Collection. Exh. cat. Springfield: University of Illinois Press and Illinois State Museum, 2004. Weininger, Susan. “Frances Foy.” In Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: The Pursuit of the New. Edited by Elizabeth Kennedy, 111. Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art, 2004. McGlauflin, ed. (1937). Who's Who in American Art 1938-1939. 2. Washington D.C.: American Federation of Arts. Petteys, Chris, ‘’Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900’’, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
  • Chicago Society of Etchers

    Chicago Society of Artists

    No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago

    The Ten
  • February 7-March 10, 1929: The Marshall Fuller Holmes Prize,  Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Boating

    Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Chicago Society of Artists, 1929

    January 29-March 1, 1931: The Mr. and Mrs. Jule F. Brower Prize:  Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Still Life with Dog

    October 29-December 13, 1931: Honorable Mention The Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Visitors

    January 28-March 20, 1932: The Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Logan Prize:  Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Betty

    March 11-April 25, 1943: Municipal Art League Prize for portraiture:  Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Strawberry Print
  • filing clerk for Donnelley Printing

    served on technical committee of the Federal Public Works of Art Projec

    Executed commissions (murals at post offices) for the Illinois Treasury Section of Fine Arts Department.

    Fashion illustrator for advertising agency; commercial work for J Walter Thompson advertising agency and Scott, Foresman publishing

    member of Ergion 10 committee of federal Public Works of Art Project (allocated funds for Illinois, Wisconsin and

    1935: taught summer school at Art Institute of Chicago
  • See the Frances Foy biography written by Barbara Melosh in "Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary." A biography about the artist is available at M. Christine Schwartz Collection website.