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1852 Concord, Massachusetts - 1931 Baltimore, Maryland. Known for: Mural, marine, landscape and figure painting.
Primarily a mural painter, Edward Simmons, a marginal member of the Ten, also excelled in plein-air figure and landscape painting. His mother's brother was Ralph Waldo Emerson and his father was a... Read full biography
Primarily a mural painter, Edward Simmons, a marginal member of the Ten, also excelled in plein-air figure and landscape painting. His mother's brother was Ralph Waldo Emerson and his father was a Unitarian minister named George Frederick Simmons, making Edward a product of a rather austere,... Read full biography
Primarily a mural painter, Edward Simmons, a marginal member of the Ten, also excelled in plein-air figure and landscape painting. His mother's brother was Ralph Waldo Emerson and his father was a Unitarian minister named George Frederick Simmons, making Edward a product of a rather austere, hearty, New England stock. Through the years, the parlor in his family home resembled the set of an American history pageant. He remembered seeing Emerson, Charles Sumner, former senator from Massachusetts,... Read full biography
Primarily a mural painter, Edward Simmons, a marginal member of the Ten, also excelled in plein-air figure and landscape painting. His mother's brother was Ralph Waldo Emerson and his father was a Unitarian minister named George Frederick Simmons, making Edward a product of a rather austere, hearty, New England stock. Through the years, the parlor in his family home resembled the set of an American history pageant. He remembered seeing Emerson, Charles Sumner, former senator from Massachusetts, known for his anti-slavery stance, John Brown, Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the painter Charles H. Davis. Simmons, born in Concord, Massachusetts on October 27, 1852, studied at Harvard, then traveled to Cincinnati where he met Frank Duveneck.... Read full biography
Primarily a mural painter, Edward Simmons, a marginal member of the Ten, also excelled in plein-air figure and landscape painting. His mother's brother was Ralph Waldo Emerson and his father was a Unitarian minister named George Frederick Simmons, making Edward a product of a rather austere, hearty, New England stock. Through the years, the parlor in his family home resembled the set of an American history pageant. He remembered seeing Emerson, Charles Sumner, former senator from Massachusetts, known for his anti-slavery stance, John Brown, Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the painter Charles H. Davis. Simmons, born in Concord, Massachusetts on October 27, 1852, studied at Harvard, then traveled to Cincinnati where he met Frank Duveneck. Simmons continued west, and came face-to-face with swindlers and pistol-toting drunks; in his autobiography, F... Read full biography