Frank Armstrong

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Frank Armstrong often finds himself in a different landscape as he travels north, west, and south from Massachusetts across the United States.  Often towing a small trailer behind his truck, he can spend weeks at a time on the road.  Photographing the landscape for over 50 years, he prefers to be off the beaten path.  He’s not in a hurry. Armstrong develops a kinship with the new environment and sets out to see.  He is not interested in the big cities with their skyscraper skylines but rather in what is left unseen in the small towns and on the back roads, concentrating on the natural landscape.  In all of the images, Armstrong is never more than 20 yards from the road.

I photograph to validate an existence, and for the sheer ecstasy of pleasure I feel at that moment when the dialogue between myself and the subject reveals what Vincent van Gogh called “…a feeling for the things in themselves. It is a passage from things seen to things known. -Frank Armstrong

Armstrong’s work is held in many private and public collections.  Some of these are:  National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.  He teaches at Clark University.