Inside The Artist's Studio at Sunflower Castle
Historic New England adds a Gertrude Beals Bourne watercolor to its collection.
The story of Sunflower Castle — tucked on the corner of Mount Vernon and River streets — reaches beyond its curious yellow stucco walls and fish-scale shingles, to the third floor former art studio of Boston born watercolorist Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868-1962). Furnished with antiques and unique décor, the room is depicted in Bourne's painting, "The Artist's Studio — Sunflower Castle," circa 1910. Historic New England, a preservation organization, recently purchased the watercolor from the Childs Gallery on Newbury St. "In addition to being the work of a New England artist, it adds to Historic New England's collections that document New England interiors, and adds to its collection of twentieth-century New England objects," says Historic'…
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