Artist. Best known for his depictions of American Indians, Massachusetts native George Bertrand Mitchell, who signed his work "G.B. Mitchell", is also acclaimed for his watercolors of New England seafaring life. Born in East Bridgewater, MA, where his father, George T. Mitchell, was employed as an iron worker, the artist's colonial forebears included Judge Nahum Mitchell and Mayflower passenger Experience Mitchell. After initially studying art at the Institute of Design in nearby Lowell and at Boston's Cowes School of Art, he continued his training in Paris, France, where he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien from 1895 to 1897. Returning home, his desire to portray Native American life led to extensive travel in the Northwest and Southwest US, as well as Canada, and by the outbreak of World War I, he had developed close ties to the Assinaboine, Navajo, Hopi, and Blackfoot tribes, including formal adoption into the latter. Married to his childhood sweetheart, the former Adah Ruth Black of Lynn, MA, the long-lived couple briefly resided in New York City's Greenwich Village before acquiring a home in Rutherford, NJ, and a summer cottage and studio on Mason's Island, near Mystic, CT. Avid travelers, the Mitchells undertook an artistic expedition to Asia during the early 1920's, exploring remote parts of China, Indochina, and Japan. But the artist's dominant inspirations remained Native American life and the coastal scenes he'd known since boyhood. A member of the famed Salmagundi artists' club in New York City, his work is represented in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Mystic Art Center and Mystic Seaport Museum in CT, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA, and the noted Native American collection at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ. Aged 94 at the time of his death, G.B. Mitchell was survived by his devoted wife, who died at 94 the following year.