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1872 San Leandro, California - 1945 Santa Barbara, California. Known for: Western genre and horse painting, illustration.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •California Style
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Cowboys
- •Desert Landscape
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •San Juan Capistrano Mission
- •Spanish Missions, California
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •California Before 1940
- •Death Valley, California
- •Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Southern California Before 1900
Art Association
- •Society of American Etchers/Brooklyn Society of Etchers
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Santa Barbara School of the Arts, Teacher
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
- •J.L Hubbell Collection, Arizona
- •Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
- •William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
- •COLLIER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Genre Specialty
- •Hearst Publications Artist
- •Horse Subject Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art