Oil on paper laid down on bard, unsigned, retaining gallery label, presented in a giltwood frame.

Panel 6 x 8 3/4 in. Frame dimensions 11 1/2 x 14 in.

From the estate of the late Robert H. Staton Jr., Durham, North Carolina

The Redfern Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.

George Symons was born in Chicago, Illinois. He first studied at the Chicago Art Institute where he became close friends with William Wendt. The two artists painted together in California and in Cornwall, England in 1898. Symons later studied in Paris, Munich, and London, and joined an artist’s colony at St. Ives, adopting the plein-air techniques of Julius Olsson, Adrian Stokes, and Rudolph Hellwag. He worked in Chicago as a commercial artist, and returned to California in 1903 with Wend, opening a studio in Laguna Beach and becoming active in the California Art Club. He maintained his primary studio in Brooklyn, New York, and passed away in New Jersey in 1930.

His work can be found in notable collections of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Fleischer Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Institute of Arts and Letters, the Lotos Club, the Century Club, and the Salmagundi Clubs. He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Union Internationale des Beaux Arts et des Lettres.

Good estate condition.