Gertrude Beals Bourne Explained

Gertrude Beals Bourne
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts
Death Place:	Boston, Massachusetts

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.^[1] 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.^[2] They lived together in a home known as Sunflower Castle, in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.^{[3] [4]}

The 2004 book Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston (1868-1962) is devoted to her work.^[5]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[6] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Beacon Hill Garden Club has Something to Celebrate – Beacon Hill Times . beaconhilltimes.com.
2. Web site: Bourne, Gertrude Beals (1868-1962) . nhhistory.org . New Hampshire Historical Society.
3. Book: Taylor . Karen Cord . Legendary Locals of Beacon Hill . 2014 . Arcadia Publishing . 978-1-4671-0149-3 . en.
4. Web site: A Beacon Hill landmark paints fine picture . Boston Herald . 15 September 2012.
5. Book: Howlett . D. Roger . Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston (1868-1962) . 2004 . Copley Square . 978-0-9628143-1-0 . en.
6. Web site: Marshlands with House—Essex Marshes . collections.mfa.org . en.
7. Web site: Gertrude Beals Bourne Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.