1919 (ca.), George Gardner Symons, Where Water Flows and Long Shadows Lie -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
In 1900, Gardner Symons returned to America after nearly a decade of study abroad in France, Germany, and England. He settled briefly in Chicago, the city of his birth and where, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he received his first artistic training. About 1903, encouraged by his friend and Chicago classmate, artist William Wendt (1865-1946), he set up a studio in Laguna Beach, California. Symons was a major figure in the region until he came East in about 1909 and established his home in New York.
By the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century Symons was an exceedingly popular artist with major exhibitions at prestigious venues. In 1912 he had a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which featured four examples of his winter landscapes, the theme for which he became best known. Leila Mechlin, critic for the Washington Evening Star, praised his work: "Unaffected by tradition in the narrower sense, Mr. Symons goes directly to nature and translates her messages in term of sincerity and truth, combining color and form in brilliant and beautiful harmonies.... His pictures... are full of the compelling charm of life in the open and are painted with a broad technique and an unerring knowledge of drawing, color values and composition."
Symons participated in nine Corcoran Biennial exhibitions beginning with the 1910 exhibition. Where Waters Flow and Long Shadows Lie was purchased in 1919 from the seventh exhibition in this series.
1919 (ca.), George Gardner Symons, Where Water Flows and Long Shadows Lie -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
In 1900, Gardner Symons returned to America after nearly a decade of study abroad in France, Germany, and England. He settled briefly in Chicago, the city of his birth and where, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he received his first artistic training. About 1903, encouraged by his friend and Chicago classmate, artist William Wendt (1865-1946), he set up a studio in Laguna Beach, California. Symons was a major figure in the region until he came East in about 1909 and established his home in New York.
By the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century Symons was an exceedingly popular artist with major exhibitions at prestigious venues. In 1912 he had a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which featured four examples of his winter landscapes, the theme for which he became best known. Leila Mechlin, critic for the Washington Evening Star, praised his work: "Unaffected by tradition in the narrower sense, Mr. Symons goes directly to nature and translates her messages in term of sincerity and truth, combining color and form in brilliant and beautiful harmonies.... His pictures... are full of the compelling charm of life in the open and are painted with a broad technique and an unerring knowledge of drawing, color values and composition."
Symons participated in nine Corcoran Biennial exhibitions beginning with the 1910 exhibition. Where Waters Flow and Long Shadows Lie was purchased in 1919 from the seventh exhibition in this series.