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An American realist painter, Aaron Bohrod was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Crane Junior College in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, during which time he earned a living doing commercial work for the advertising art departments of local stores. Relocating to New York, Bohrod began training at the Art Students League with John Sloan (1871–1951), who Bohrod would credit as an influence on his art.

Back in Chicago in the early 1930s, he painted urban settings and the life of everyday people, and became immersed in the city’s artistic scene, exhibiting locally, belonging to the