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We Beat Auction Houses $$$Edward Borein (1827-1945)
Edward Borein was born in San
Leandro, California. At the age of 17, he left school to work with a
saddlemaker. He then worked for several years as a cowboy,
constantly sketching and occasionally sending his drawings to
magazines for illustration.
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He spent a month in 1891 at the San Francisco Art Association, where
he met Maynard Dixon, who would gain notice as an important painter
of the desert country. Leaving art school, Borein hired on as a
cowboy at the Jesus Maria Rancho in Santa Barbara and then at a
ranch in Malibu. The owner, who admired the young man's sketches,
staked him to an extended sketching tour of Mexico. When he
returned, Borein joined the "San Francisco Call" as a staff artist,
earning eight dollars a week - even less than cowboy pay.
With Dixon, Borein toured the Sierras, Carson City, and parts of
Oregon and Idaho in 1901, returning to Mexico two years later. It
was during this trip that he began making watercolors. In 1904, he
settled in Oakland where he painted and produced some sculpture.
After many years of marginal work, he became a very successful
illustrator for the great magazines of the day: "Harper's",
"Collier's", "Sunset", "Century", and "Western World". He became one
of the most popular artists in America, gaining national fame and
associating with the likes of Charles Russell, James Swinnerton,
Maynard Dixon, Will James, Olaf Seltzer, Carl Oscar Borg, and
western celebrities including Will Rogers and Leo Carillo.
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