George Ames Aldrich
A landscape artist, George Ames Aldrich was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 3, 1872. His early art experience took place in the 1890s while living in Europe. He studied art in the Midwest, the East Coast, Paris, and throughout Europe, and worked as an illustrator for both “Punch” magazine and “The London Times” in the 1890s. In 1918, Aldrich arrived in Chicago and became involved with the South Bend art scene during the 1920s. His specialty was richly painted impressionist scenes of Brittany and Normandy, almost always including water. Aldrich exhibited regularly at the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a member of the Chicago Galleries Association, the Hoosier Salon, and the Chicago Society of Painters and Sculptors. In 1924, he won an architectural club traveling scholarship and traveled to Europe to paint in England, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. He died in Chicago in 1941.