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for Charles Avery Aiken
American, 1872 - 1965
After an education in the Worcester, Massachusetts, public schools, Aiken in 1890 entered Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, where he studied for three years. His teachers there were Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. Known as a painter and graphic artist, he also executed murals for Steinert Hall in Boston. Aiken was elected to membership in the Academy as a watercolorist. His watercolors generally depicted landscape or flower subjects. During his last years, Aiken spent much of his time at his home in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
