Artist

Armington, Caroline Helena

Title

Pont St. Michel No.2, Paris

Technique

etching

Date

1913

Dimensions

11.8cm height x 15.1cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

1983.31

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

BAG purchase

Born in Brampton, Ontario, in 1875, Caroline H. Armington was a painter, watercolourist, etcher and engraver best known for her depictions of the streets of Paris and of picturesque canals in Bruges. Armington did her formal training in Paris at the Académie Julian and immigrated to France with her husband Frank Armington in 1905. During her lifetime, she exhibited numberous times in London and was invited to the Paris Salon of 1911, 1912, and later at the 1935 Salon d'Automne. A solo show of Armington's work was also held at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the 1930s. She died in New York following a series of heart attacks in 1939.