About Gertrude Bourne

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Gertrude Beals
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    Gertrude Beals grew up on Dartmouth Street in the Back Bay of Boston. Around 1890, she began to study art privately first with Henry Rice, 1853-1934 (who had learned his craft from Ross Turner, 1847-1915) and later, in the early 1910s, with Henry B. Snell (1858-1943), one of the founding members of the New York Watercolor Club.

    An important part of her education was the trips she took to Europe with her family in the 1890's; she painted in Norway, France, and Great Britain at this time. In 1892, Gertrude Beals first exhibited at the Boston Art Club along with fellow artists Helen Knowlton and Marie Danforth Page. Her realism in works from the 1890's allies her stylistically with the American landscape tradition exemplified b...

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