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Hans Foy was born in Brooklyn on 10 May 1892 to German immigrant parents. He was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1910 at the age of 17 and was later employed by Stahl & Jager Company as a commercial artist. He was an early member of the American Artists Congress, having joined in 1936. He was a well-known artist in the 1930s, including illustrating The Gospel of St. Luke (1930) for Lester Douglas, and submitting numerous illustrations for Nation’s Business. He also exhibited prominently at the time, including a group exhibition at the Brownell Lambertson Gallery in New York City in 1931, and two solo exhibitions in New York City in 1933 and 1934, as well as exhibiting work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Guild Art Gallery between 1926 and 1937.
Foy purchased a shop in Queens, New York selling antiquities and Asian artefacts in the late 1930s and stopped producing art for commercial purposes, although he continued to paint and draw. His wife, Ottilie Foy also worked as a commercial artist and illustrator.