He exhibited his work in art venues in France and the US, and he won a silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Aid was also invited to show his etching work, along with Clarence Gagnon, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, and Herman Armour Webster.
[2] Aid stayed in France for fifteen years, meeting other American artists like Richard E. Miller and Frederick Carl Frieseke.
He also met a young music student from South Carolina named Mary Orr, who became his wife in 1910.
During the 1920s, George Charles Aid became a reputable artist by teaching etching and doing portraits of prominent people of the Carolinas.