Frank & Caroline Armington (Canadian, 1876-1941, 1875-1939)

Views of Paris

In 1905, Canadian expatriates Frank and Caroline Armington made Paris their permanent home. Over the next three decades, the couple worked tirelessly to build parallel careers, each producing an impressive and widely collected body of paintings, etchings, and in Frank’s case, lithographs. Inspired by the enduring qualities of Gothic architecture and an earlier generation of artists including the Impressionists, James McNeill Whistler, and Charles Meryon, the Armingtons’ views of Paris are timeless records of their love for their adoptive home and technical mastery of their chosen media.