Essex Marshes Scarf

<i>Essex Marshes</i> Scarf
<i>Essex Marshes</i> Scarf <i>Essex Marshes</i> Scarf
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Marshlands with House—Essex Marshes about 1925
Gertrude Beals Bourne, American, 1867–1962
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Philip W. Bourne, 1986
Accession number: 1986.533

Gertrude Beals Bourne (1867-1962) was born on Beacon Hill and grew up in the Back Bay and New York. She became a significant figure in Brahmin Boston in the early 1900s.

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 1905.

Gertrude Beals married the architect Frank Augustus Bourne in 1904 and moved into “Sunflower Castle” at 130 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill. There they became part of a community of artists and helped to re-gentrify the Hill in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1928 she founded the Beacon Hill Garden Club. Bourne was also very aware of the work of John Singer Sargent, whose 1910 watercolors she copied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Maurice Prendergast, a friend and neighbor on Mount Vernon Street and Laura Coombs Hills.

36"sq, 100% silk.
Dry clean only