Edward Borein Art

EDWARD BOREIN (1782 - 1945) NAVAJOS AT THE WATER HOLE, NO 1 (Galvin 181) Etching, Stamped signature below the platemark at right faded. Image 11 7/...

Edward Borein (1872-1945) California Artist Image Size: 5 x 4 Frame Size: 14 x 12 Medium: Etching Circa 1908 "Bronco Buster" Biography Edward Borein (1872-1945) Born in San Leandro, California, Edward Borein became one of the most popular artists of western scene painting, equally adept at ink drawing, watercolor, and etching. He was raised in San Leandro, a western cow town, in a family where his father was a county politician. Edward had many childhood memories of herded cattle and their cowboys, which he began sketching at the age of five. He was educated in the Oakland, California schools, and at the age of 17 began working on a ranch near Oakland and then drifted and sketched as a working cowboy throughout the Southwest, Mexico, and Guatemala. It was said that he practiced his art on anything he could find from bunkhouse walls to scraps of paper. At age 19, he enrolled at the San Francisco Art School, his only formal art training, and there he met Jimmy Swinnerton and Maynard Dixon who encouraged him in his art career. The first person to purchase his work was Charles Lummis, editor of The Land and Sunshine magazine in California, and the two became life-long friends. Borein and Lucille Maxwell were married in the Lummis home. Borein, a typical westerner in dress and manner, also became close friends with Charles Russell, actor Will Rogers, and President Theodore Roosevelt. Borein often traveled north to visit Russell in Great Falls, Montana and to travel among Indian tribes. In 1899, Borein visited Arizona while returning from Mexico. By 1902, he was a successful illustrator in San Francisco for the San Francisco Call, and in 1907 to enhance his illustration skills, went to New York to learn etching techniques. There he enrolled in the Art Students League and was a student of Child Hassam. In the theatre district, he opened a studio that became a gathering place for 'lonesome' westerners such as Charles Russell, Will Rogers, Olaf Seltzer...

'New Bucking Horse', etching, c. 1916, edition not stated, Galvin 72. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine impression, in warm black ink, on pale, buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Image size 8 x 5 inches; sheet size 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches. A rarely seen image, very scarce. Matted to museum standards. Unframed. The cowboy's work of breaking wild horses into riding horses evolved into the competitive sport of professional rodeo in the 1880s. Borein created some 32 etchings on the subject of cowboys breaking horses and bucking bronco rodeo riders. ABOUT THE ARTIST No other artist captured the "disappearing West" with the authenticity and spirit of John Edward Borein (1872-1945). A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Borein rode south in 1893 at the age of twenty-one, and over the next few years, worked his way through California and the vast stretch of Mexico. On the range, the young cowboy sketched...

EDWARD BOREIN (America 1872 - 1945) TRAIL HERD No. 2. c. 1920-25 (Galvin 101) Etching, unsigned, but a lifetime impression. Platemark 6 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches. On thin laid paper, sh...

'Scratchin' High', etching, edition not stated, c. 1919. Signed in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove paper, with margins (11/16 to 2 1/8 inches). Two small spots of toning in the bottom right margin, away from the image; barely visible printing creases in the top left margin and the middle right background, otherwise in very good condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THIS WORK The cowboy's work of breaking wild horses into riding horses evolved into the competitive sport of professional rodeo in the 1880s. In 1919 at the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, Canada, Borein sketched a rider on the famous bucking horse named 'I-See-U'. He later made this etching of the dramatic scene, entitling it 'Scratchin' High'. ''Scratching'' refers to the rider's technique of maintaining balance on a bucking horse by a continuous movement of the feet in a kicking motion. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (online), and the Whitney Western Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST No other artist captured the "disappearing West" with the authenticity and spirit of John Edward Borein (1872-1945). A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Borein rode south in 1893 at the age of twenty-one, and over the next few years, worked his way through California and the vast stretch of Mexico. While on the range, the young cowboy sketched...

EDWARD BOREIN (1872 – 1975) TAOS (aka (Oven), Taos New Mexico (Gavin 234) Etching, with platetone. 7 7/8 x 13 ¾. Unsigned. Large f...

JOHN EDWARD BOREIN (1872 - 1945) BREAKNECK TRAIL TO WALPI, No. 2 (Galvin 214) Etching, signed in pencil, 12 1/2 x 8 7/8, sheet 13 1/2 x 9 3/4. Small m...

JOHN EDWARD BOREIN (1872 - 1945) MISSION SANTA BARBARA, No 3, c.1920 (Galvin 250) Etching, Signed in pencil. 8 1/2 x 14 1/...