Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868–1962) was an American artist.

Gertrude Beals Bourne
Born1868 (1868)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts
Died1962(1962-00-00) (aged 93–94)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts
Sunflower Castle, in Beacon Hill, Bourne's former home

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]

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Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[7] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]

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