Arthur Armstrong (painter)
Arthur Armstrong (12 January 1924 – 1996) was a painter from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He is known for landscape and still-life paintings done in a Cubist style.
Armstrong was the son of a house painter and attended Strandtown Primary School. He studied architecture at Queen's University Belfast for two years before switching to art at Belfast College of Art. His Cubist influence and interest in the School of Paris shaped his work, which he made while traveling to England, France, and Spain, and while painting in the West of Ireland, especially Connemara.
His work was shown from 1950 at the Grafton Gallery in Dublin, with later exhibitions in England, Spain, the United States, Belfast, and Dublin. In 1957 he received a travelling scholarship from the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and went to Spain. He settled in Dublin in 1962 and began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Armstrong won the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal at the Oireachtas Exhibition in 1968 and the Art in Context prize from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1973. In 1969 he helped design sets for Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, working with George Campbell and Gerard Dillon. He became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1972 and joined Aosdána in 1981, the same year a retrospective of his work from 1950–1980 was held by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Arthur Armstrong died in 1996.
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