Frank Armington

Frank Armington studied at Académie Julian. Training under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jean-Paul Laurens and John Wycliffe Lowes Forster is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Residence is recorded at Paris and New York City. Work by Frank Armington is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée Carnavalet and Luxembourg Museum.

• Name — Frank Armington • Birth Name — Frank Milton Armington • Birthplace — Fordwich, Ontario • Died — 1941 • Place of death — New York City • Spouse — Caroline Wilkinson • Education — Académie Julian • Occupation — Graphic artist

• Illustration — Henkersteg, Nürnberg, 1913 litograph Frank Armington was born in Fordwich, Ontario, on July 28, 1876. Armington studied art in Ontario with J. W. L. Forster from 1892 until 1899. He also met his future wife, Caroline Wilkinson, during these studies. In 1899, Armington made his first visit to Paris. While there he married Wilkinson and continued to study art, this time at the Académie Julian. Armington and his wife moved back to Canada in 1900, where Armington became a founding member and vice president of the Manitoba Society of Artists. Armington returned to Paris and lived there from 1905 until 1939. While living in Paris, Frank and Caroline Armington became close friends with the poet and writer Robert W. Service who invited them to his wedding and to his house in Lancieux, where they painted. Toward the end of his life he and his wife moved to New York City. Caroline died soon after the move, however, and Armington remarried in 1940. Armington died in New York City in 1941. Throughout his career, Armington worked in a number of mediums including etching 221 prints and a number of lithographs. A major list of public collections is given in "Caroline and Frank Armington" (1990)

The authorities additionally record the heading Frank Milton Armington. His recorded language was English. He married Caroline Armington.