Landscape painter and etcher George Ames Aldridge was born in Worchester, 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.
 
Aldridge was enrolled at the Art Students League and at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech. His art studies continued in Paris, where he was a pupil at the Academies Julien and Colarossi. Aldridge 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 Aldridge'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”.
 
In 1924, Aldridge received an architectural-club traveling scholarship for a European study trip. During that time he spent six months in residence at the Academy in Rome, and three months at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Art in France. He traveled and sketched in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and England. Aldridge died at his home in Chicago in 1941, at age 68.

Memberships
Chicago Society of Painters and Sculpture
Chicago Gallery of Art
Hoosier Salon, Chicago
Societe des Artistes Francais
Public Collections
Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Ind.
Decatur Museum, Ill.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Musee de Rouen
Union League Club, Aurora, Ill.
Elgin State Hosp., Chicago