The Winter Sun

Provenance

The artist, Chicago [Day Book 4, 130-131; Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1910-1911, 17, 28-29; Art Institute of Chicago Institutional Archives]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.

Inscriptions

Signed lower right: Gardner Symons

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 18–Nov. 27, 1910, cat. 220.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), n.p., cat. 220. Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1910-1911, first year book (1911), 17, 28-29 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 126, cat. 70 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: George Gardner Symons (American, 1861–1930)
Date: about 1909
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 120 × 181.6 cm (47 1/4 × 71 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: Impressionism
Place: United States
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Friends of American Art Collection
Accession no.: 1910.313

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.