Hamilton Reed Armstrong

Mr. Armstrong was born in 1937 and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with internationally recognized sculptors: Carl Iluva, Walker Hancock, and Fredrick Shrady.

Much of Mr. Armstrong's work was produced during an extended stay in Spain, where his work was extolled by noted critics Raul Chavari, and Cecilio Barbaran as a revitalization of the Spanish mystical tradition embodied in the work of El Greco, Zurbaran, Alonso Cano, Pedro de Mena and Martinez Montañez.  Mr. Armstrong's work is also reproduced in the UNESCO Encyclopedia of World History (Edicion Planeta 1977, Vol. II).

Mr. Armstrong has taught art history for Christendom College, Front Royal, VA; studio art for the Magi Center at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; and presently teaches with The Height's School, Potomac, MD, as well as the distance learning program of the International Catholic University, Notre Dame, IN.

Mr. Armstrong's work may be seen in private collections, churches, public spaces in the United States, Europe, and Africa as well as many museums including the Dansforth in Framingham MA. Recent commissions include: the commemorative medal for the Victims of Communism Committee, Washington D.C.; a portrait bust of H.H. Pius X for the papal memorial chapel, Riese Italy; a portrait bust of H.H. John Paul II for The John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington D.C.; the Papanicolas memorial Chalice for St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church, Washington D.C.; and he is presently working on a series of monumental sculptures for the Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI.