Resume

Born 1940, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lives and works in Hatfield, MA, West Dummerston, VT, and Tucson, AZ

Education

1963 M.S. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1962 B.A. Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1962 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH-Summer
1960 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH-Summer
1957 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH-Summer

Selected Exhibitions

2023
“From Arizona to Vermont, 2023
May 23 – June 17
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

“Trifecta”
April 22 – July 22
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC

“Concerning the Spritual in Landscape”
April 22 – May 27
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2021
“Then and Now” – part 1 of 3 – online exhibit
April 13 – May 15
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

“Trees, Seas and Objects”
February 3 – 27
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Deep Design” – online exhibit
December 29, 2020 – January 30
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2020
“Collage & Cutout: Nine Artists” – online exhibit
September 17 – November 14
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2019
“Contemporary Responses to Moderism: A New England Perspective”
Curated by Joanna Fink, Director, Alpha Gallery, Boston
October 10 – December 8
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

“Martha Armstrong & Elizabeth Meyersohn”
August 2 – September 28
The Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, VT

“Beyond the Mountain”
Martha Armstong, Jessica Singerman, Kathleen Craig
March 15 – April 26
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC

“New Paintings”
March 26 – April 20
Bowery Gallery, NYC

“Recent Paintings”
May 2 – 26
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2018
“Martha Armstrong: Landscapes: Vermont – Arizona – Italy – Ireland”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2017
“Martha Armstrong: Solo Show”
Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC

“Martha Armstrong: Summer Solo Show, Yester House”
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT

2016
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2015
“Martha Armstrong: “East To West Recent Paintings”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Landscapes”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2013
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2012
“Martha Armstrong: Landscapes”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2011
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Oxbow Gallery, New York, NY

“Martha Armstrong: Clarion Building Exhibition”
Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2010
“Martha Armstrong: Vermont Landscapes”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2009
“Martha Armstrong: UP TO NOW”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong: “Recent Work”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2008
“Martha Armstrong: “Recent Work”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of
Tulsa-School of Art, Tulsa, OK

2007
“Martha Armstrong: Double Takes: Recent Work”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2006
“Martha Armstrong: Landscapes”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong: Solo Show”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2005
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc, New York, NY

2004
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Works”
The International School of Painting,
Drawing, and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy

2003
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc., New York, NY

“Martha Armstrong: Landscapes”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2001
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2000
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc, New York, NY

1999
“Martha Armstrong Artist in Residence Show”
Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH

“Martha Armstrong: Landscapes”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong Recent Work”
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998
“Martha Armstrong Recent Paintings”
Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc, New York, NY

1997
“Martha Armstrong Recent Paintings”
Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc, New York, NY

1996
“Martha Armstrong Recent Paintings”
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995
“Martha Armstrong Recent Paintings”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1994
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1993
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong Recent Paintings”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

1991
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1989
“Martha Armstrong: Solo Artist in Residence Exhibition”
Emison Art Center DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

1988
“Martha Armstrong: Solo Artist Faculty Exhibition”
Smith College, Northampton, MA

“Martha Armstrong: Bowery Invitational Show”
The Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

1986
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1985
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong: Solo Show”
Hull Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1984
“Martha Armstrong Retrospective 1964-1984”
Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, PA

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1983
“Martha Armstrong: Solo Show”
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1981
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1980
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1977
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1974
“Martha Armstrong: Recent Work”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1971
“Martha Armstrong: Solo Show”
The Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA

1969
“Martha Armstrong: Solo Show”
Sessler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
“Seeing Ourselves: Self Portraits by 50 Women Artists”
A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA

“Painted-Paint-Painting”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Bowery Gallery Artists Group”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2016
“The Lay of the Land: Contemporary Landscapes from the Collection”
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

“Friends and Neighbors A Celebration from the Collection”
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA

“In and Of The Land Part II”
Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT

“Near and Far Landscape Paintings”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“On Paper Martha Armstrong, Mariel Capanna, Ying Li, Bettina Nelson, Val Rossman”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2015
“Seven on Site”
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA

“Seven on Site + Two”
Newtownbarry House Gallery, Bunclody, Ireland

“As Far As The Eye Can See”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“The Art of Landscape”
Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA

“Dialoghi dell’Arte”
International Group Exhibition, SACI Gallery, Florence Italy

“Dialoghi dell’Arte”
International Group Exhibition , Guilin Museum of Art, Guilin, China

2014
Two Person Exhibition: “Martha Armstrong : Landscapes” & “Gerald Auten: No Angel”
Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA

“Paper Works: Group Show”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013
“Seven On Site”
Martha Armstrong, Sasha Chermayeff, Judy Koon, Ro Lohin, Lynette Lombard, Megan Williamson
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2012
“Contemporary Floral Painting / Nineteenth Century Roots”
Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA

“Aspects of Summer”
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies,
Elder Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina

“Smith College Reunion Show”
Smith College, Northampton, MA

“Summer Show Gallery Artists”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011
“The Common Object 4th Edition” and Zeuxis
Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

“American Landscapes Coast to Coast”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“The Figure” Midwest Paint Group Exhibition
Alexandre Hogue Gallery, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2010
“The Figure” Midwest Paint Group Exhibition
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO

“The Figure” Midwest Paint Group Exhibition
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

“Small Works Invitational Curated by Carmela Kolman”
The Painting Center, New York, NY

“The Common Object 3rd edition”
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

“The Common Object 2nd edition”
Peninsula Fine Arts Center Newport News, VA

“The Common Object 1st edition”
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA,

“Faculty Exhibition”
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

“Pages: Bowery Gallery at 40 in Black and White”
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2009
“Faculty Exhibition”
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008
“Faculty Exhibition”
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

“Gallery Artists, Part IV“
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2007
“Martha Armstrong, Andrea Packard, Celia Reisman“
The Painting Center, New York, NY

“Gallery Artists”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

Gallery Artists”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
“Disegno”
Watkins Gallery, Northampton, MA

“Works on Paper Invitational”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

“Landscapes”
Gross McCleaf, Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
“Gallery Artists Part II”
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2004
“Small Works”
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

“Gallery Artists Part I”
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

“Gallery Artists”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Juried Members Exhibition”
The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

“George Nick Selects ‘Realist Painters’“
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

2003
“Light in Landscapes – Reflections of Italy”

The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

“Unbroken Circle: A Tribute to Quita Brodhead”
The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

2002
“Plein-Aire Revisited” curated by William Barnes
The Andrews Gallery, William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA

“The Nature of Nature” curated by Jeffrey Carr
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St Mary’s, Maryland

“Landscapes/Mindscapes” curated by Guna Mundheim,
Long Beach Island Foundation For The Arts and Sceinces, Loveladies, New Jersey

“Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Edwin Dickinson in Contemporary American Painting” curated by Scott Noel
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

“Changing Prospects: The View from Mt. Holyoke” curated by Martha Hoppin and Susan Danly
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

“Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Artists”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“The American River”
organized by The Great River Art Institute, Walpole, NH
shown at:
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
T.W.Wood Gallery and Art Center, Montpelier, VT
Florence Griswald Museum, Lyme, CT

2001
“Graduate Alumni Show”
Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

“Selected Works: Women Artists in Woodmere’s Permanent Collection”
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

“From West to Wyeth—Painting in Philadelphia,”
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA,

2000
“Women’s View: Two Generations of Women Artists from New York” curated by Ying Li
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA

1999
“Ambience and Energy: Expressionist Painters Give Life to Inanimate Spaces, curated by Stacy Smith”
The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

“Of Darkness and Light: Contemporary Landscape Painting” curated by Mark Scala
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA

“Armstrong, Scott, Werfel”
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

1998
“Armstrong, Friese, Lewis, Matthiasdottir”
Jaffe-Friede & Srauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

“Embodied Fictions” curated by Jeffrey Carr
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD

“Pertaining to Philadelphia V”
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997
“Martha Armstrong—Oils / David Rohn – Water Colors”
Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH

“Stanley Lewis/Martha Armstrong Paintings and Drawings”
List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

“U.S. Artists 97”
Armory, Philadelphia, PA

1996
“U.S. Art: San Francisco’s International Art Expo”
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Five College Faculty Drawing Exhibition”
Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

“U.S. Artists 96”
Armory, Philadelphia, PA

1995
“Go Figure”
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Pertaining to Philadelphia II”
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“In Praise of Nature” curated by Younghee Choi Martin
PSA Art Showcase IV, New York, NY

“Landscapes”
Pennsylvania College of Art, Lancaster, PA

1994
“25th Anniversary Exhibition”
The Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

“Invitational Exhibition”
The Painting Center, New York, NY

1993
“Invitational Exhibition—Members’ Choice”
The Painting Center, New York, NY

“Works by Women Artists: Selections from the William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection, Part I”
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

“Landscape Observed: Drawings by Four Contemporary Artists”
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, curated by Nancy Friese

“Works in Sequence”
Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA

“The Oxbow Revisited”
Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA

1991
“Recent Paintings: Martha Armstrong, Gary Niswonger”
Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA

1990
“Martha Armstrong / Jeffrey Carr”
Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

“Evidence of the Senses”
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

“Two Person Exhibition”
The Gallery Bloomington, IN

1989
“Indiana University Faculty Exhibition”
Bloomington, IN

“Drawing: Points of View” curated by Robert Godfrey
Belk Art Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

1988
“Rutgers National Drawing Exhibition”
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Juried Exhibition
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

1987
Martha Armstrong paintings, Jane Everhart pastels, Christopher PahIey paintings constructions
Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Greater Harrisburg Fine Arts Festival, Harrisburg, PA

1986
“161st Annual Exhibition”
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Cheltenham Print Exchange Exhibition (traveled in China)

“Contemporary Women Artists of Philadelphia” Invitational
Wallingford Arts Center, Wallingford, PA

1985
“Schoharie National Small Works Exhibition”
Schoharie, NY

1984
“New Acquisitions”
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

“Contemporary Artists”
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY

1983
“Art and the Garden”
Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ

“Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival”
William Penn Memorial Museum, PA

“43rd Annual Juried Exhibition”
Woodmere Art Gallery Philadelphia, PA

“42nd Annual Award Exhibition”
Cheltenham Art Center, PA

Director’s Choice”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Drawing Exhibition”
Beaver College, Glenside, PA

“American Paintings”
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

1982
“Philadelphia Group Exhibition”
Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA

“Philadelphia Invitational Painting Exhibition”
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

“Three Rivers Salutes Three States”
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

“18th Juried Exhibition”
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

“Prints by Martha Armstrong and Paul Narkiewicz”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Five Artists”
Hahnemann University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Hand Made Paper”
Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, PA

1981
“Series—Invitational”
Cheltenham Art Center

“Color & Watercolor”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Associated American Artists, Philadelphia, PA

1979
“Annual Exhibition”
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1978
“Drawing”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Paintings by Martha Armstrong and Burton Van Deusen”
Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

1974
“New Talent”
Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY

“Women Artists”
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1967
“Five Young Painters”
Fine Arts Foundation of Connecticut, Hartford, CT

Selected Public Collections

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Philadelphia, PA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Ark.
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, N.C.
Bryn Mawr College Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Commerce Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Wilmington, DE
Emison Art Museum, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
The Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, PA
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO
Haverford College Fine Art Collection
Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
The Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, PA
R.C.A. Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Smith College Museum of Art
Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia, Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
Smith, Kline, Beecham, Philadelphia, PA
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Taft Broadcasting Company of Pennsylvania, Inc.
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Numerous Private Collections

Awards

2006 American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist,
2004 Arthur B. Carles Prize, The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1996 Harnish Fellowship, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1995 Camargo Foundation Grant, Cassis, France
1990 Harnish Grant, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1979 Schnaeder Prize, Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Bibliography Highlights

The New York Times, September 2015, Roberta Smith,
Art Review “Martha Armstrong: Nature Scenes at Bowery Gallery”

Art in America, April 2004, Lance Esplunde, Art Review
“Martha Armstrong at Walter Wickiser Gallery”

The New Yorker, June 2003, Martha Armstrong show review by Alexi Worth

The New Yorker June 2000 “Martha Armstrong” show review by Alexi Worth

The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26,1999, Edward J Sozanski, “Martha Armstrong: Variations on a View”

Art in America, April 1984, Deborah Rosenthal, “Martha Armstrong at Gross McCleaf”

Bibliography

Armstrong, Martha Collins, “Coming to Terms with Being a Painter,” Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Northampton, MA, Winter, 1989

Brosseau, Mark, “Martha Armstrong, Up To Now,” catalog essay, Gross McCleaf Gallery, February, 2009

Campbell, Lawrence, “Martha Armstrong at Bowery,” Art in America, Vol 84,no 4, April, 1996

Carr, Jeffrey, “Embodied Fictions,” American Artist, September, 1998

–“Contemporary Women Artists,” Bo-Tree Productions, Palo Alto,CA 1984

Donahoe, Victoria, “The Arts”, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 1987 and June 8, 2003

–“Canvases Projecting Personality: Martha Armstrong at Gross McCleaf,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February, 2009

–“On Galleries,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 4, 1985

–“Art: Martha Armstrong and Paul Narkiewicz,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 23, 1982

–“Martha Armstrong,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 28,1980

Driscoll, John and Arnold Skolnick, The Artist and the American Landscape, First Glance Books, 1998

Esplunde, Lance, “Martha Armstrong at Walter Wickiser,” Art in America, April 2004

Finkelstein, Lydia B, “Art”, Sunday Herald-Tribune, Bloomington, IN, February 18, 1990

Fisher, Jim, “Martha Armstrong: Recent Works”, exhibition catalog, Mulligan Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA, August 1996

Goodman, Jonathan, “Martha Armstrong, Recent Paintings,” catalog essay, Walter Wickiser Gallery, 2005

Gross, Estelle and Burton Van Dusen, eds, “A Collection of Thoughts about Drawing,” Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 1978

Henry, Gerrit, “Martha Armstrong: Recent Paintings,” catalog essay, Walter Wickiser Gallery, 2000

Hoppin, Martha, “Seven on Site”, Art New England, on line, June 25,2013

Katz, Jonathan, “Around the Galleries,” The Philadelphia Bulletin, April 12, 1981

Leonard, Elizabeth, “Martha Armstrong: Distilling the Essence of a Landscape,” Painting the Landscape, Watson Guptill Publications, New York 1984, pp 84-87

Lewis, Stanley, “Martha Armstrong, Recent Work,” catalog essay, Gross McCleaf Gallery, 1983

–“Martha Armstrong: Up To Now,” exhibition catalog essay, Gross McCleaf Gallery, February, 2009

Mangravite, Andrew, “Martha Armstrong at Gross-McCleaf: A former expressionist comes full circle,” Broad Street Review, March, 2009

Oppenheimer, Daniel, “Vermont through Italy, The Arts Pick of the Week,” The Valley Advocate, March 23,2006

Randlett, Robert, “Martha Armstrong, Recent Paintings,” catalog essay, Gross McCleaf, Philadelphia, 1984

Rayner, Vivian, “Three Exhibitions at the Noyes Museum,” New York Times, September 2, 1984

Rosenthal, Deborah, “Martha Armstrong at Gross McCleaf,” Art in America, Vol 72, no 9, October, 1984

Scott, William P. ,“Martha Armstrong, “Abstracted Landscapes,” American Artist, January, 1980

–”Martha Armstrong, Recent Work,” catalog essay, Gross McCleaf Gallery, 1983

–“Philadelphia Artists Win Fans in West,” Art Matters, October, 1995

— “Martha Armstrong,” Arts Magazine, vol 62, no 10, June, 1998

–Bowery Gallery catalog essay, New York, 1995

–“Martha Armstrong, Paintings and Prints, New Art Examiner, vol 18, no 1 Philadelphia, _____.

Skove, Margaret, “A Personal Place: Martha Armstrong Landscapes,” catalog essay, Blanden Art Memorial, March, 2014

Smith, Roberta, “Martha Armstrong: East to West: Recent Paintings at Bowery Gallery, New York Times, September 25, 2015

Southwell, William, “Reviews”, Art Matters, September, 1986

Sozanski, Edward J. “Variations on a View,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 1999

Wei, Lilly, “Martha Armstrong, Recent Paintings,” catalog essay, Walter Wickhiser Gallery, 2003

Worth, Alexi, “Martha Armstrong, Recent Paintings,” catalog essay, Walter Wickhiser Gallery, 1998

–“Galleries—Downtown”, The New Yorker, June 5,2000

–“Galleries—Downtown”, The New Yorker, June 16-23, 2003

–“Martha Armstrong: Up To Now”, catalog essay, Gross McCleaf Gallery, 2009

Selected Teaching and Professional Activities

2016
Visiting Artist International Center for the Arts, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy

2015
Mt Gretna School of Art, Mt Gretna, PA

2007-14
Visiting Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Graduate School, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist, The University of Tulsa, School of Art, Tulsa, OK

2006
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, June, July
Visiting Artist, International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy
Visiting Artist, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

2005
Panel on Arthur B. Carles, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty- International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy
Visiting Artist and Juror, Knox College, Galesburg, IL

2004
Visiting Critic for Honors Graduates, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

2003-04
Visiting Critic, Graduate Program, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2003-04
Associate Visiting Professor, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Program: “Lennart Anderson and George Nick talk about their teacher Edwin Dickinson”

2003
Visiting Faculty—Summer, International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Montecastello, Italy
Visiting Artist, American University, Washington, D.C.
Hollins University, January term, Todi, Italy

2002
Visiting Lecturer, “Influences: How Artists Remember,” Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Hollins University, January term, Todi, Italy

2001
Visiting Faculty – Fall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2000
Hollins University, January term, Todi, Italy

1999
Visiting Artist, American University, Washington, D.C.
Visiting Artist, University of Western Carolina, Cullowhee, N.C.
Visiting Artist, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence, Hollins University, VA,
Panel: “What Should We Take into the Next Century?”
Moderator: Martha Armstrong, with William Theophilus Brown, Jeffrey Carr, George Nick, Bill Scott.

1998
Visiting Critic, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1990-97
Assistant Professor in painting and drawing, Smith College, Northampton, MA

1994
Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1992-1994
Visiting Critic, Graduate Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1992
Visiting Artist, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Visiting Artist, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD
Visiting Artist, School of Chicago Art Institute-Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI

1991
Instructor, Landscape Painting, School of Chicago Art Institute-Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI

1986-90
Visiting Assistant Professor in painting and drawing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1989
Artist-in-Residence, Caumsett, Queens College, Huntington, NY

1988
Visiting Artist, Caumsett, Queens College, Huntington, NY

1987
Visiting Artist—graduate critiques in painting, School of Chicago Art Institute, IL

1985
Visiting Artist, School of Chicago Art Institute-Oxbow, Saugatuck, M1

1984
Visiting Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

1983
Visiting Lecturer, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist, Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD
Visiting Artist, Artists for the Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap

1982
Visiting Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Galleries

Bowery Gallery, NYC
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA