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Edward Borein: The Artist's Life and Work
Works by noted cowboy artist Edward Borein, on loan from the Rockwell
Museum in Corning, New York, is on display at the Santa Barbara Historical
Society, 136 E. De la Guerra St., through December 5, 1999. (left:
Mission San Juan Capistrano, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York)
Borein spent 12 years in the East before moving permanently to Santa Barbara in 1921. At the Art Student's League he briefly studied etching, which set him apart from his Western artist peers. His career received a boost with two one-man exhibitions in New York.
Borein is best known for scenes of a vanishing Western
America painted, drawn and etched with extreme accuracy. He excelled in
depicting horses and longhorn cattle in motion with just a few strokes of
the pen. He reportedly never tired of his subjects, seeing great variety
even in the 
expressions
of a longhom steer or rank saddle bronco. Edward Borein was born in 1872
in San Leandro, a town along one of the California cattle trails, where
his father was deputy sheriff. The family later moved to nearby Oakland,
a major center in the cattle industry at the time. It was in Oakland that
Borein's artistic inclinations became evident as he began sketching at the
age of five. (right: After the Kill, Rockwell Museum, Corning,
New York)
Subjects available to him during his childhood -- cowboys, vaqueros, longhorn cattle and horses--determined his lifelong interests.
Edward Borein: The Artist's Life and Work is the second Borein exhibition for the Historical Society. The first was a showing in June 1998 of more than 100 of his works.
Text courtesy of This Month in Santa Barbara County. Images courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Society.
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