Amos Lee Armstrong - Artist Info

About Amos Lee Armstrong

  • Biography

    Born in Many, Louisiana, Amos Armstrong became a painter of impressionist southern landscapes and also lectured on southern art. He attended Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, Louisiana and also studied at the Natchitoches Art Colony in Louisiana and the Art Students League in New York.

    For 26 years, he was geological draftsman for oil companies, working in Texas and Louisiana, living in Houston in the 1930s. From 1934 to 1942, he had a studio in New Orleans. He served in World War I and World War II, and then settled in Shreveport, Louisiana where he died in 1969.

    Exhibitions included the Salons of America and the Society of Independent Artists in New York, the Southern States Art League, and the Houston Artists Exhib...

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