Background
Simmons, Will was born on June 4, 1884 in Elchè, Spain. Son of Edward (Emerson) and Vesta (Shallenberger) S.
Simmons, Will was born on June 4, 1884 in Elchè, Spain. Son of Edward (Emerson) and Vesta (Shallenberger) S.
Preparatory education, Cheam School, England, and Saint Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire (U.S.) Student Harvard, 1901-1902. Art education, Julian Academy, Paris, 1904-1907.
Painter, etcher, sculptor and writer of wild life, now portraiture. Works on permanent exhibition at Library of Congress, Corcoran Gallery, United States National Collection (Washington, District of Columbia), New York Public Library, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, et cetera Censorship service of the United States, New York, 1917-1919.
Member Society American Etchers (secretary 1922-1924), Chicago Society Etchers, Print Makers of California, Prairie Print Makers (honorary).
Married Teresa (Ludovica) Cerutti, May 26, 1910 (deceased). Married second, Gertrude Steele, 1947.