Une Route à Dives Sur Mer
Caroline Helena Armington Canadian
Not on view
Armington visited the fishing port of Dives-sur-Mer in Normandy in 1933 and created this etching centered on curved and rutted country road receding between grassy banks with pollared trees at right. Born near Toronto, the artist moved to Paris with her artist husband Frank Armington in 1905. They both learned to etch in 1908 and then traveled through Europe and to North Africa and North America to find subjects. Demonstrating an interest in traditional picturesque imagery, Armington's work here demonstrates her interest in Dutch seventeenth-century landscape, as well as the continued significance in the early twentieth century of principles espoused by the Etching Revival.
