Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868–1962) was an American artist.
Gertrude Beals Bourne | |
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| Born | 1868[1] Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | 1962 (aged 93–94)[1] Boston, Massachusetts |
Bourne was known as a landscape painter and for her gardening work; she was the founder Boston's Beacon Hill Garden Club.[2][3] She studied art privately beginning about 1890, first with Henry Rice and then with Henry B. Snell, a founding member of the New York Watercolor Club. She preferred to paint in Gouche and watercolor. In 1904 she married the architect Frank Bourne.[3] They lived together in a home known as Sunflower Castle, in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.[4] [5]
The 2004 book Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston (1868-1962) is devoted to her work.[6]
Collections
editHer work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[7] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gertrude Beals Bourne | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- ^ "Beacon Hill Garden Club has Something to Celebrate – Beacon Hill Times". beaconhilltimes.com.
- ^ a b "Bourne, Gertrude Beals (1868-1962)". nhhistory.org. New Hampshire Historical Society.
- ^ Taylor, Karen Cord (2014). Legendary Locals of Beacon Hill. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-0149-3.
- ^ "A Beacon Hill landmark paints fine picture". Boston Herald. 15 September 2012.
- ^ Howlett, D. Roger (2004). Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston (1868-1962). Copley Square. ISBN 978-0-9628143-1-0.
- ^ "Marshlands with House—Essex Marshes". collections.mfa.org.
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