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 Académie 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, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Société de la Gravure Originale en Noir.
Museums and Public Collections: New York Public Library Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Musée 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 Bibliothèque National, Paris Musée 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
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