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Edward Simmons (painter)

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Edward Emerson Simmons (October 27, 1852November 17, 1931) was an American impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts.

In the year 1914 he travelled with Childe Hassam to visit the rising California artist, Xavier Martinez at his Piedmont studio to view his recent paintings of the Arizona desert.

Simmons was a member of the Ten American Painters, who, as a group, seceded from the Society of American Artists.