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Promotory (1969)
Arthur Armstrong (b.1924, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, d.1996, Dublin)
Oil on Board
H: 105, W: 90 cms
Arthur Armstrong was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim in 1924. He studied architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast for two years and then attended art classes where he met Gerard Dillon and, subsequently, George Campbell and Daniel O’Neill. In 1957 he went to Spain on a travelling scholarship from CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts) and from 1962 lived in Dublin. He exhibited widely during the 60’s and 70s and became an early member of Aosdana in 1981. He painted many landscapes in Connemara, regarding himself as an abstract painter who interpreted landscape as a texture of water, rock and light. George Campbell described Armstrong as the best landscape artist in Ireland.
