Alden Brooks Exhibit at Kenilworth Historical Society

It’s open!
You can now view the exhibit at the Kenilworth Historical Society.

We love working with museums!
From initial ideas to frame choices to art labels – we collaborated with the KHS Exhibits Committee on their new exhibit.  (Opening day event 05/07/2023)

Large panels of information were designed to create context for the variety of artwork of Alden Finney Brooks, known for his portraiture of subjects including Union Army officers. Visitors will learn about the life and artistry of Brooks and his connection to Kenilworth.

The museum is open on Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9am – 5pm

About:
Alden Finney Brooks (1840-1932) was an American artist well-respected in the Chicago art scene of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He worked primarily in oil paint and watercolors, painting portraits, landscape scenes, and still-life objects. Brooks and his wife Ellen raised an artistically inclined family. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth Brooks Maher, was a watercolor painter married to Prairie School architect George Maher. Alden Finney Brooks spent his remaining years on the North Shore, where two of his daughters lived. His time in Kenilworth is captured in several of his paintings, including some that will be on display in the exhibit.

Alden Finney Brooks’ work is found in the collections of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Portrait Gallery. In 2020, the Kenilworth Historical Society acquired nearly 90 paintings by Alden Finney Brooks, greatly enhancing our existing collection of his work. This exhibit will give visitors the chance to see Brooks’ artistic talents in one place.

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