Aaron Bohrod
American, 1907 - 1992Riverview Amusement Park, 1934
Not on view
Gouache on paper
Dimensions13 × 18 in. (33 × 45.7 cm)
Courtesy of the Isabel Foundation, Inlander Collection, L2003.45
Aaron Bohrod was born in Chicago in l907. Between l926 and l930, he studied art, first at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then at the Art Students League in New York, where he was taught by John Sloan, Kenneth Hays Miller, and several other well-known American painters. Heeding Sloan's admonition that artists should "paint what they know," Bohrod left New York in 1930 and returned to his native Chicago to paint views of the city's north side streets and the life of the working class in the Great Lakes region. Through the 1930s, Bohrod exhibited his work in most of the important exhibitions surveying contemporary trends in American art. Following the unexpected death of John Steuart Curry in 1946, Bohrod was invited to assume the position of Artist in Residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Resettling in Madison, Bohrod began documenting rural Wisconsin in the same manner that he chronicled urban Chicago in the 1930s.
