Caroline Armington
Canadian-born artist (1875–1939)
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Caroline Helena Armington (1875–1939) was a Canadian born artist. She was "hard-working, determined and ambitious".[1]
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| Born | September 11, 1875 Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | October 25, 1939 (aged 64) New York, New York |
| Education | Académie Julian |
| Known for | Painting, Printmaking |
| Spouse | Frank Armington |
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Armington worked in a number of mediums including a large body of etchings (551). Her main practice consisted of painting and printmaking. In addition to being an artist, she also trained at Guelph General Hospital as a nurse.[2]
Biography
Caroline Helena Wilkinson was born on September 11, 1875, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.[3] From 1892 to 1899 she took art studies under J. W. L. Forster.[4] She traveled to New York in 1899, where she worked as a nurse.[4] The following year she sailed to Europe and married Frank Armington.[5] She moved back to Canada during 1900–01.[6]
From 1905 to 1910, the couple returned to study in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Julian.[7] In 1908, Caroline's painting Paysanne Hollandaise was accepted at the Salon des Artistes Francais' annual exhibition, held at the Grand Palais, Paris.[8] They assisted the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris from 1914 to 1918, with Caroline working as a nurse and Frank as an orderly.[9] Armington's etching of Bayeux Cathedral was the May 1924 cover of Brooklyn Life magazine.[10] According to the magazine article, collections of her etchings were in the following museums at the time: Luxembourg and Petit Palais, Paris; British Museum and South Kensington Museum, London; Bibliographic de Belgique, Brussels; Liege; New York Public Library; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.[10]
Armington left Paris in 1939 and moved to New York.[11] She died there on October 25, 1939.[12]
Pubic collections
A major list is given in "Caroline and Frank Armington" (1990)[13]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art[14]
- The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives[15]
- The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC[16]
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[17]
- Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC[18]
- British Museum, London[19]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London[20]