Biografie von George Ames ALDRICH (1872-1941)

Birth place: Worcester, MA

Death place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: South Bend, IN; Chicago, IL

Profession: Landscape painter, etcher

Studied: ASL; MIT; Académie Julian, Paris; Colarossi Acad.; Aman-Jean; Whistler; Collin; Thaulow.

Exhibited: Hoosier Salon, 1923 (prize), 1926 (prize), 1929 (prize), 1932 (prize); AIC, 1926 (prize).

Member: Chicago PS; Soc. des Artistes Français; Chicago Gal. Assn.; Hoosier Salon.

Work: Sioux City Art Soc.; Purdue Univ.; Univ. Illinois; Union League Club, Aurora; Decatur Mus.; MFA, Houston; murals, MusÈe de Rouen, France; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; War Mothers Bldg., Washington, DC.

Comments: Positions: illus., The London Times, Punch magazines. He studied and worked extensively in Europe, painting in Normandy and Brittany c.1909-10, and again in 1924, when he spent 6 months at the American Academy in Rome and 3 months at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts on scholarship, traveling and sketching in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and England thereafter.

Sources: WW40; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 279; 300 Years of American Art, 649.