GEORGE AMES ALDRICH

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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George Ames Aldrich (1872-1941) was an American Impressionist painter. He painted rural, coastal and canal bank-side landscapes of Brittany and Normandy, and genre paintings. He worked as an illustrator for several English and American magazines and newspapers, such as the Punch magazine and The London Times.

Aldrich painted rural village and river scenes, during several visits to France. This was his main oeuvre, which he reproduced with few atmospheric details. His subject, style, and compositions were diverse, often influenced or imitative. He was proud of his skill of rendering swiftly flowing water, though these were inspired by the works of Norwegian impressionist landscapist Fritz Thaulow.

He worked in Impressionists manner, where shadows were muted. In later part of life, he shifted from rural scapes and water fronts, to factories and steel mills.

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