Biography : Gertrude Barnes
1864 (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts) - 1939 (Palo Alto, California)
Born in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, Gertrude Barnes became a painter
of still lifes and figure work, many of them watercolor miniatures on
ivory. She lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Barnes studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston with Dennis Bunker and at the Art Students League in New York with William Lathrop, Henry Snell, and Charles Woodbury. Settling in Minneapolis, she studied with Douglas Volk at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art and was active in the Artists League of Minneapolis.