Frank Armington
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Frank Armington was a Canadian born and raised artist who lived most of his adult life in France
. Toward the end of his life he moved to New York City, USA with his wife, Caroline Armington
. He worked in a number of mediums including etching 221 prints and a number of lithographs.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. Toward the end of his life he moved to New York City, USA with his wife, Caroline Armington
Caroline Armington
Caroline Helena Armington was an artist, Canadian born and raised, living most of her adult life in France. Towards the end of her life moved to New York City, USA with her husband, Frank Armington....
. He worked in a number of mediums including etching 221 prints and a number of lithographs.
Chronology
- July 28, 1876 born Franklin Milton Armington in FordwichFordwichFordwich is the smallest place in Britain with a town council, having a population of 351 recorded in the 2001 census. It lies in Kent, on the River Stour, northeast of Canterbury....
, OntarioOntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada - 1892 through 1899 took art studies under J. W. L Forster. It was during these classes that he met Caroline Wilkinson, his future wife.
- 1899 went to New York and then on to Paris with his mother and sister.
- 1900 studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Benjamin Constant and John-Paul Laurens
- 1900 married Caroline Wilkinson in Paris
- 1900 moved back to Canada
- 1903 is a founding member and first vice president of the Manitoba Society of Artists.
- 1905 - 1910 the couple returned to study in Paris
- 1914 - 1918 during the war, the couple assisted the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris - Caroline worked as a nurse and Frank as an orderly.
- 1939 left Paris and moved to New York, New York, United States.
- 1940 remarries
- 1941 died New York, New York, United States.
External links
- cybermuse to search the National Gallery of Canada collection
- www.artistarchive.com A catalogue of over 220 prints, many with images.