Caroline H. Armington was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada on September 11, 1875 and died on October 25, 1939. She is considered an impressionist painter, watercolorist and engraver from the Canadian school.
Armington began he formal training in Paris at the Academie Julian where she would meet and marry fellow student Frank Milton Armington (1876-1940). She is known for her painting, engravings and watercolors depicting the streets Paris and quaint canals of Bruges-La-Morte.
She exhibited several times in London and was invited to the Paris Salon of 1911, 1912 and later at the 1935 Salon d'Automne. Armington was a member of American Federation of Arts, Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Societe de la Gravure Originale en Noir.
Museums and Public Collections:
New York Public Library
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Musee de Luxembourg, Paris
Petit Palais, Paris
British Museum, London
South Kensington Museum, London
National Gallery, Ottawa
Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio
Syracuse Museum, NY
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Bibliographie de Belgique, Brussels
Bibliotheque National, Paris
Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Boston Museum, Mass.
Des Moines Art Association
Listed
Who was Who in American Art, Faulk, pg. 18
E. Benezit, vol 1, pg.265
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
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