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George Gardner Symons (1863 – 1930)
Grand Canyon (1914)
oil on canvas
36 × 60 inches
signed and dated lower right

VERSO
Label, Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY
Exhibition label, Thomas Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Label, Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale, AZ

PROVENANCE
The Artist
The Santa Fe Railroad
The Anshutz Collection, Denver, CO
Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY
Private Collection, NJ

EXHIBITED
Masterworks of California Impressionists, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, Jan - Mar 1990
California College Update, Thomas Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, Sept 1992

LITERATURE
Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976), p 478, illustrated
Joni Louise Kinsey, The Majesty of the Grand Canyon (O.G. Publishing Corp, 1998), p 66-67, illustrated

208

George Gardner Symons

1863 – 1930

Grand Canyon (1914)
oil on canvas
36 × 60 inches
signed and dated lower right
Sold at Auction: $59,500
Condition ReportSurface condition is excellent. Painting has been lined. Several small spots of inpainting in upper-left, in sky. Several spots of inpainting along top, and in lower-right corner, near edges of frame.

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