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George Ames Aldrich, E. Gloucester Docks, 48"x48"

George Ames Aldrich – A Cape Ann Masterpiece

Posted: November 08, 2011 10:47 Last Updated: | James Puzinas

Every once in a while, a painting comes into our gallery that just knocks you off your feet. Painted in luscious colors, this large scale 48" x 48" work is a masterpiece of composition and execution. Created around 1919, at the height of the popularity of American Impressionism, George Ames Aldrich (1872-1941), pushes the envelope to produce a thoroughly modernist image of a traditional Cape Ann theme, the busy docks of Gloucester harbor. The influence of the European modernists first seen by many American artists at the famous Armory Show of 1913, ushered in one of the most creative pe...