George Ames Aldrich
"George Ames Aldrich was born in Worcester, Mass, in 1872. As a member of the Chicago Galleries Association, he was established as a Chicago talent and exhibited there regularly. His early art experience was as a magazine illustrator in the 1890s, when he did illustrations for The London Times and Punch magazine.
Aldrich was enrolled at the Art Students League, his art studies continued in Paris, where he was a pupil at the Academies Julien and Colarossi. Aldrich won four prizes from the Hoosier Salon in Chicago, the first in 1923 for a snow scene. Many of his landscapes were painted in Normandy and Brittany, probably in 1909 and 1910, when he lived in Dieppe.
A critic who saw Aldrich's works in a Chicago show wrote that his paintings had 'a sense of a romantic approach to each subject, a spirit of adventure in painting it . . . . His American landscapes were painted with imagination and faithful observance of the original' ".
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"Winter Stream" by George Aldrich, (oil on canvas, 36 x 42" )
Image courtesy Janus Galleries, Madison WI.
Peter Lundberg/director Janus Galleries
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