Adolf Aldrich

Aldrich was born in 1916 in Springfield, Massachusetts.^[1] In 1937 he produced the woodcut print Old Bridge for the Works Progress Administration.^[2] He contributed to a limited edition 1941 serigraph calendar along with fellow printmakers Philip Hicken, Edward Landon, Margaret Schadt, and Pauline Stiriss.^[3] During World War II Aldrich served as a Merchant Seaman.^[1]

Aldrich's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.^[4] He was associated with the Atelier 17 printmaking studio in New York.^{[5]: 83–84} He went on to pursue a career in graphic illustration and movie art direction, returning to painting in the 1990s.^[1]

Aldrich died on April 2, 2010, in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.^[6]

Aldrich's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art^[7] and the Library of Congress.^[2]