The quality and popularity of the work of David Armstrong (1947-1998) places him in company among America's greatest realist painters. For three decades his original work has been represented by Hammer Galleries (33 W. 57TH ST. New York, NY), where he completed nine sold-out one-man exhibitions. Museum exhibitions include a major 30-year retrospective held at The Butler Institute of American Art. Reproductions of Armstrong's work have been in the print marketplace for over 20 years with over 60 sold out editions.

David Armstrong is highly regarded as one of America's foremost realist painters. Acclaimed for their unusual luminosity and color Armstrong's watercolors reflect the artist's life and his concerns for the environment.

Born in 1947, David grew up on his family's sheep farm in Kent, Connecticut, on the banks of the Housatonic River.

He began painting in watercolor at an early age and studied at the Taft School and Bucknell University. After completing graduate work in painting at Indiana University in Bloomington, Armstrong returned to his farm in Unityville, Pennsylvania.

The simple life of the people there, his love of family, and the endless beauty of the American landscape have continued to provide the artist with inspiration and subject matter. His work is imbued with a kind of optimistic spirit in which there exists a harmony between man and nature. 

In addition to his having been honored by his home state of Pennsylvania with major retrospective exhibitions at the William Penn State Museum in 1978 and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in 1985, David Armstrong has exhibited his work in museums throughout the country. He is represented in museums and in corporate and private collections across America. His first one-man exhibition of watercolors was in 1974 at the Hammer Galleries.