# Gardner Symons artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Death date: 1930-01-18
- Nationality: American
- Movements: American Impressionism
- Common media: oil painting

## About Gardner Symons

Gardner Symons (full name George Gardner Symons, c. 1861–1930) was an American Impressionist painter recognized for his landscape work and his role among the early artist community in Laguna Beach, California. Active from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth, Symons was elected a National Academician (N.A.), a mark of distinction within the American art establishment. His paintings were exhibited institutionally during his lifetime, including a solo exhibition at the St. Louis City Art Museum in 1914. Symons is listed in major reference works including Bénézit's Dictionnaire critique and Who Was Who in American Art, and his identity is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, and the Library of Congress authority files.

## Common works and media

Symons is best known for oil paintings of landscapes, including California coastal views, winter scenes, and rural subjects. Works most commonly encountered at auction are medium-to-large-format oil on canvas paintings, though smaller sketches and studies also appear. No evidence of prints, multiples, or sculptural work was identified in the available sources.

## Market and appraisal context

Gardner Symons's work appears regularly at auction, with over four hundred recorded lots in the Appraisily database, indicating sustained collector interest. Paintings — primarily oil-on-canvas landscapes — are the most commonly offered medium. Provenance, condition, subject matter (especially California coastal and winter landscape scenes), and documented exhibition history are principal factors affecting value. Researchers should note the absence of a known catalogue raisonné; attribution may require cross-reference with standard biographical dictionaries such as Bénézit or Falk.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from museum, library-authority, and scholarly sources with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Gardner Symons, this page draws on the Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, Wikidata, and published biographical references, supplemented by Invaluable auction-lot data.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5539621
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gardner_Symons
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026138
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95842954/
- RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History): https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/76304
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89654650