George Gardner Symons
Introduction George Gardner Symons circa 1920A Fishing Village - St Ives'''George Gardner Symons''' (1861-1930) was an American impressionist painter.
Biography He was born in either 1861 or 1863 in Chicago, Illinois. Attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Symons also studied in Europe and won awards at the National Academy of Design and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. A plein-air painter, he built the first studio in the art colony of Laguna Beach, California during the early 1900s. He died in Hillside, New Jersey in 1930.
References
External links * * Symons at The Athenaeum* ''Biographical Notes'', a collection of biographical information and images of 50 American artists, containing information about the artist on page 46. * Two exhibition catalogs, available from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.