Gertrude Beals Bourne | |
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Born | 1868[1] Boston, Massachusetts |
Died | 1962[1] Boston, Massachusetts | (aged 93–94)
Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868–1962) was an American artist.
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]
Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [7] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [1]
Gertrude Beals Bourne | |
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Born | 1868[1] Boston, Massachusetts |
Died | 1962[1] Boston, Massachusetts | (aged 93–94)
Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868–1962) was an American artist.
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]
Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [7] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [1]