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Edward Emerson Simmons

Edward Emerson Simmons (1852 - 1931) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York / France.  Edward Simmons is 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 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, From Seven to Seventy (1922), Simmons included a colorful description of San Francisco before the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 21996 characters.]  Artist bio

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September Afternoon, 1891

Edward Emerson Simmons

Lot 177
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HOMEWARD-BOUND, circa 1888 , c.1888

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Young Woman, Concarneau , 1885

Edward Emerson Simmons

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Gathering Wood - Concarneau - 1883

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Le printemps , 1883

Edward Emerson Simmons

Lot 116
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Contemplation (Portrait of Mrs. Fisher) , 1913

Edward Emerson Simmons

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