Edward Simmons grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, went to Harvard, tried his luck out West as a tenderfoot north of California, and then studied painting in Paris. His memoir runs on through the artists’ colonies of France and England and his career as a mural painter of American public buildings, full of anecdotes about the painters and writers he knew. Oliver Herford supplies a playful foreword.
A genial, gossipy memoir by a member of the group of American Impressionists known as the Ten. Download the free EPUB.