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Original Watercolor by Ed Borein

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Original Watercolor by Ed Borein
"Men on Horseback", image measures 12 3/4"x 10 3/4". Includes a receipt from Linda Morris Studio showing cleaning and repairs made to paper. Edward Borein, 1872-1945, original watercolor. Scarce and hard to find. 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. 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. 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, a typical westerner in dress and manner, also became close friends with Charles Russell, actor Will Rogers, and President Theodore Roosevelt.  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 and Oscar Borg.  But Borein did not feel at home in New York, so he moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1921. This was a final move.  He and his wife built a Hopi-style home, and he taught at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts until his death,