Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Untitled Portrait of a Girl, 1941
oil on canvas
Collection of M. Christine Schwartz
24 x 20 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Still Life with Lilies in a Vase, 1942
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
mural: Advent of the Pioneers, 1851, 1938
Chicago Main Post Office
15 x 5 feet
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
mural: Hiawatha Returning with Minihaha
Gibson City Post Office
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
study for mural: Wild Flowers-Spring, circa 1943
tempera on wood
Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
17.75 x 43 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
study for mural: Native Vegetation
watercolor
Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
9.5 x 28 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
cityscape, 1948
8.5 x 7.5 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
A Floral Still Life
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Afternoon Reading with Tea
oil on canvas
32.75 x 36.5 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Bananas
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Children with Cat
woodcut
6 x 4.875 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Day Lily
etching
10 x 7 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Mushroom
watercolor
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Frances Strain
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Garages
oil
Collection of Bill Biggins
13.75 x 18.5 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Night Street Scene with Figures
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Portrait of a Man
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
Portrait of a Woman
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
barn
watercolor
5.625 x 9.5 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
1937
watercolor
6.25 x 4.75 inches
Frances Foy (1890-1963)
1939
watercolor
15.75 x 12.5 inches
Artist Details
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]
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
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 BridgesCollection. 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.