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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 319

George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' Oil on Canvas

Estimate: $7,000 - $14,000
Starting Bid
$5,000

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Signed lower right. 

 

Image: 39" Wide x 29 1/2" Tall 

Frame: 48" Wide x 39" Tall

 

Condition: There is craquelure throughout the painting. The colors are still bright and vibrant. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: George Gardner Symons (1861-1930) was born in Chicago, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in Paris, Munich and London, and spent several seasons painting at the artists' colony of St. Ives in Cornwall. Back in the United States he divided his time between a New York studio, the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts and Southern California, where he painted with his friend William Wendt and kept a studio at Laguna Beach in the years when it was becoming a plein air colony.

Symons found his true subject in winter. His large canvases of snow covered hillsides and rivers running dark and open between frozen banks, painted with broad, vigorous brushwork and a sharp eye for reflected light, made him one of the most highly regarded American Impressionists of the snow scene. In 1909 his "An Opalescent River" won the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design and entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he was elected a full Academician in 1911. 'Winter River' takes up the theme at the center of his reputation, moving water in a winter landscape.

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