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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
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Keywords (59)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Stained Glass Design, Restoration, Crafting
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Barbizon, France
- •Boston Before 1900
- •California Before 1940
- •Cornwall, England
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •France Before 1900
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •Society of American Artists, New York
- •The Ten/Ten American Painters
Art Teacher
- •Gustave Boulanger
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
- •Otto Grundmann
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Mural Specialty
- •Snowscene Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
