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Frank Milton Armington

Frank Armington was born in Fordich, Ontario in 1876 and died in New York in 1941. He studied art in Toronto, under J. W. L. Forster, and in Paris, first at the Academie Julian, under Benjamin Constant and Chaumiere, under Lucien Simon. Frank Armington first went to Paris in 1899, but returned to Canada with his wife, Caroline (1875-1939) to teach art in Winnipeg from 1901 through 1905. During this period, Robert Fulton Logan was among his students.

Returning to Paris in 1906, the Armington's established themselves as fine landscape and figure artists in both etching and painting. They were both full members of the Societe Nationale de la Gravure Originale en Noir, the Societe des Gravures Francais and the American Federation of Arts. Their original etchings and paintings were frequently included in major French and American exhibitions. Some recent scholars have labeled Frank Armington's art as Canadian Impressionism. Others have seen his landscape art as akin to the work of Whistler. As usual, however, there comparisons tell us very little. Frank Armington was a master of many styles, and all of them were very individual.

REFERENCE SOURCES: G. B. Opitz, Mantle Fieldings Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, New York, Apollo Books, 1987. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection, McGraw-Hill, Toronto, 1970.

CATALOGUE RAISONNE: Braide & Taylor, Caroline and Frank Armington, Canada, Art Gallery of Peel, 1990.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON Alte Pinotek, Munich, Germany Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, ON Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON Bibliographie de Belgique, Brussels Bibliothèque National, Paris, France British Museum, London, England Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Cleveland Museum of Art, , Cleveland, OH Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB Library of Congress, Washington, DC Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France Musee de Luxembourg, Paris Musee du Louvre, Paris, France Musee National d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Musee Petit Palais, Paris, France Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS New York Public Library, New York, NY South Kensington Museum, London Topeka Public Library, Topeka, KS Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

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