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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 by Winslow Homer... Read full biography
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 by Winslow Homer and Childe Hassam, both of whom exhibited paintings during the 1890's at the Boston Art Club where Bourne frequently exhibited through... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (17)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston
2004
Howlett, D. Roger, foreword by Patricia Hill
128 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
The Boston Art Club Exhibition: 1873-1909 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
479 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Women Artists in White Mountains, 1840-1940
1990
MacIntyre, Frances S
10 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies
1959
Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor)
718 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1947
1947
Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor)
685 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit