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Caroline Helena Armington
Birth Date:September 11, 1875
Birth Place:Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:New York, New York
Education:Académie Julian
Known For:Painting, Printmaking
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Caroline Helena Armington (1875–1939) was a Canadian born artist.

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.

Biography

Caroline Helena Wilkinson was born on September 11, 1875, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. From 1892 to 1899 she took art studies under J. W. L. Forster. She traveled to New York in 1899, where she worked as a nurse. The following year she sailed to Europe and married Frank Armington. She moved back to Canada during 1900–01.

From 1905 to 1910, the couple returned to study in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Julian. In 1908, Caroline's painting Paysanne Hollandaise was accepted at the Salon des Artistes Francais' annual exhibition, held at the Grand Palais, Paris. They assisted the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris from 1914 to 1918, with Caroline working as a nurse and Frank as an orderly. Armington's etching of Bayeux Cathedral was the May 1924 cover of Brooklyn Life magazine. 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.

Armington left Paris in 1939 and moved to New York. She died there on October 25, 1939.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Results for "Caroline Helena Armington" . 2024-03-20 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . en.
  2. Web site: Results for "Caroline Helena Armington". . The Peel Art Museum, Gallery and Archives..
  3. Web site: Caroline Helena Armington. . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston..

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