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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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Caroline Helena Armington (1875–1939) was a Canadian born artist. She was "hard-working, determined and ambitious".[1]
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
[edit]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]
Public collections
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ↑ Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. x1.
- ↑ "Canadian Women Artists: Artist Database, Armington, Caroline". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. CWAHI. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
- ↑ Downs 1941, p. 391.
- 1 2 Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. 17.
- ↑ Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. 18.
- ↑ Baker 2016.
- ↑ Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. 19.
- ↑ Catalogue illustré du Salon. Paris: Société des Artistes Français. 1908. ISBN 9780969427407. OCLC 45681488.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. 41.
- 1 2 "Concerning This Weeks Cover Cut". Brooklyn Life. 24 May 1924. p. 20 – via newspapers.com.
- ↑ Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. 74.
- ↑ Downs 1941, p. 392.
- ↑ Braide & Parke-Taylor 1990, p. 94.
- ↑ "Results for "Caroline Helena Armington"". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ↑ "Results for "Caroline Helena Armington"". The Peel Art Museum, Gallery and Archives.
- ↑ Armington, Caroline Helena (1924), The Seine, Paris, retrieved 2024-03-20
- ↑ "Caroline Helena Armington". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- ↑ "Burnaby Art Gallery Collection".
- ↑ "Collection". www.britishmuseum.org. British Museum. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
- ↑ "Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
Sources and further reading
[edit]- Braide, Janet; Parke-Taylor, Nancy (1990). Caroline and Frank Armington, Canadian Painter-Etchers in Paris. Peel, Ontario: Art Gallery of Peel. ISBN 9780969427407. OCLC 463744760. Retrieved 5 October 2020 – via Internet Archive. The book includes a listing of 257 etchings (out of 551 printed by the artist) drawn from the Peel Art Gallery Museum + Archives collection. It is the standard monograph and catalogue, with thorough descriptions of hundreds of prints. Note - this is not a complete catalogue as it only lists the prints in the collection of the Peel Art Gallery at the time of publication.
- Baker, Marilyn (2016) [2003]. "WILKINSON, CAROLINE HELENA (Armington)". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 16. Toronto: University of Toronto/Université Laval. ISBN 9780802090874. OCLC 946253156. Archived from the original on 18 March 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
- Downs, Winfield Scott, ed. (1941). "Armington, Caroline Helena, Artist, Engraver". Encyclopedia of American Biography: New Series. Vol. 12. New York: American Historical Society. pp. 391–392. OCLC 649569887 – via HathiTrust.
- Simpson, Stuart (2006). Frank and Caroline Armington: Through Canadian Eyes: A View of the World c.1911-1931. Lunenburg: North Shore Canadian Art. OCLC 84695328. OCLC 225608233
- Brockman, A. McKenzie (1985). Caroline and Frank Armington. Montreal Print Collectors Society. OCLC 70313843. OCLC 61655577 OCLC 32541696
External links
[edit]- www.artistarchive.com A catalogue of over 550 prints, many with images.
- pamascollection The Caroline and Frank Armington Collection at Peel Art Gallery Museum + Archives
*Catalogue Raisonné of Caroline Armington Etchings https://carolinearmington5.wixsite.com/website-2 (Titles of 635 etchings from Caroline Armington Etching Record Books and other sources, images, data sheets, signatures, public collections, biographies).
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