Gertrude Beals Bourne
Bourne was known as a landscape painter and for her gardening work; she was the founder Boston's Beacon Hill Garden Club. 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.
Also recorded as Gertrude B. Bourne · Mrs. Frank Augustus Bourne
Gertrude Beals Bourne
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- Name
- Gertrude Beals Bourne
- Born
- 1868
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Died
- 1962
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- English
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In 1904 she married the architect Frank Bourne. They lived together in a home known as Sunflower Castle, in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. The 2004 book Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston (1868-1962) is devoted to her work.
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• Name — Gertrude Beals Bourne • Born — 1868 • Birthplace — Boston, Massachusetts • Died — 1962 • Place of death — Boston, Massachusetts • Illustration — Sunflower Castle, in Beacon Hill, Bourne's former home Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868–1962) was an American artist.
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Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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