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• Lot n° 99 Edward Borein (1872-1945) "Roping" (Cowboy on horseback chasing a steer) Watercolor on thick paper Signed lower right: Edward Borein; titled from an artist's label affixed to the frame's backing board Sheet: 7" H x 9.75" W Provenance: John S. Perkins, Ojai, CA (according to an inscription on the label affixed to the frame's backboard) Sold: Bonhams, Los Angeles, CA, "California and American Paintings and Sculpture," August 7, 2007, Lot 37 From the Collection of Robert A. Day Other Notes: This work likely dates to 1921 or later. The address on the original artist label affixed to the verso of the frame is that of the permanent studio Borein established back in his native California, at 17 De La Guerra in Santa Barbara. Born in 1872 in San Leandro, California, Edward Borein grew up in the final decades of the Old West into a family of ranchers. The work of the cowboy came naturally to Borein, who by age twelve was driving cattle. While working with the cattle and horses on the ranch, Borein began to sketch. Aged 18 and bored of school, Borein left to travel up and down California, working as a cowboy on ranches throughout the state, all the while capturing the life of the ranchers in drawings. After returning to northern California for a month-long stint at the Art School of the San Francisco Art Association, Borein was encouraged by classmates Maynord Dixon and James Swinnerton to pursue art as a career. Borein did not last long in formal art school and left to find work at the Rancho Jesus Maria, and there began to send sketches out to magazine publishers. After leaving the harsh conditions and grueling labor of Rancho Jesus Maria, Borein's life became the epitome of the greatest legends of the Old West. Borein set out for Mexico, learned Spanish, and journeyed from ranchero to ranchero through central Mexico. Making his way north and back to the United States, Borein spent time among Native American peoples of the American Southwest where he feverishly documented the life of the people and communities he visited, continuously sending off drawings and illustrations to be published. By 1902, he was a successful illustrator in San Francisco for publications including the San Francisco Call. In 1907, in order to enhance his illustration skills, Borein went to New York to learn etching techniques and enrolled at the Art Students' League, where he studied under Child Hassam. While early in his career, Borein worked primarily in watercolor, ink and graphite, while periodically also in oil, but once he perfected his etching technique, this medium and watercolor were hi main focus. In New York, Borein brought the West to Manhattan, adorning his studio with artifacts and trappings from California and Mexico and entertaining Western luminaries such as Buffalo Bill Cody, Will Rogers, and Western artists including Maynard Dixon, Olaf Seltzer and Carl Oscar Borg. Around this time Borein also befriended then-president Theodore Roosevelt, another figure who found meaning and purpose in the West. Longing for the Western life he left behind, Borein returned to California in 1921. He set up his own studio in Santa Barbara, California, and began producing etchings and paintings of the colorful characters he lived and worked with. Already a thriving artistic center, Santa Barbara would be home to Borein for the rest of his life. He immersed himself in the city, helping to establish the Fiesta Parade and holding court with notable artists and creatives like Leo Carrillo, Walt Disney, and friend Will Rogers. Borein died in Santa Barbara in 1945, hailed as one of the most authentic artists of the American West.