foley is best known for her voluptuous paintings of hawaiian women, such as "hawaiian woman in white holoku" from 1937. major paintings by foley are held by the honolulu museum of art and the nelson-atkins museum of art in kansas city, missouri. a cast concrete outdoor fountain, known as the "varhey circle fountain", which she created with henry h. rempel, is on the campus of the university of hawaii at manoa.