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| A sculptor of portrait busts, Gertrude Boyle depicted Joaquim Miller,
American poet; Edwin Markham, poet; and baseball player, Christy Mathewson. In 1907, she married
Japanese poet-philosopher Takeshi Kanno, and the marriage received
widespread publich attention.
Boyle studied at Cogswell College, the California School of Mechanical
Art and the Mark Hopkins Institute where her teacher was Douglas Tilden.
She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists.
Exhibition venues included the Alaska-Pacific Yukon Exposition,
Seattle, 1909; Panama Pacific Expostion of 1915; Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, 1923; Oakland Art Gallery, 1932; San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, 1937 ; Golden Gate Exposition, 1939; California State
Fair; Salons of America; and Society of Independent Artists.
Her work can be found at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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