Arthur Armstrong (painter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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artist born in Northern Ireland, 1924-1996
Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1924
Place of Birth: Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1996
Profession: artist, painter
Nationality: Ireland, United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Arthur Armstrong (painter)
- Arthur Armstrong (12 January 1924 – 1996) was a painter from Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who often worked in a Cubist style and produced landscape and still-life works. Armstrong was born in Carrickfergus on 12 January 1924.
- He was the son of a house painter and attended Strandtown Primary School.
- Later he studied architecture at Queen's University Belfast, but after two years he moved to study art at Belfast College of Art.
- The influence of Cubism and the School of Paris can be clearly seen in his work, which took him to England, France and Spain.
- He also travelled and painted in the West of Ireland and Connemara inspired some of his best work.
- In 1950 his work was exhibited in the Grafton Gallery in Dublin, and subsequent exhibitions took place in England, Spain and the United States, as well as in Belfast and Dublin.
- In 1957 he was awarded a travelling scholarship from the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (a forerunner of the Arts Council of Great Britain) and went to Spain.
- He eventually settled in Dublin in 1962 and began showing work at the Royal Hibernian Academy.In 1968 he was awarded the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal at the Oireachtas Exhibition.
- In 1969 he designed sets (with George Campbell and Gerard Dillon) for the Seán O'Casey play, Juno and the Paycock, at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
- He became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1972 and in 1973 he was awarded the Art in Context prize from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
- He became a member of Aosdána in 1981, the same year that a retrospective exhibition of his work from 1950 to 1980 was held by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.Armstrong died in 1996.
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