Original Etching and Drypoint “The Antelope Kiva, Walpi” [SOLD]

Edward Borein was born at San Leandro, California, not far from San Francisco, in 1873.  He began to work as a cowboy at the age of seventeen, and sold his first drawing when he was twenty-one.  From that time onward, irrespective of location as he travelled all over the Southwestern United States and as far south as Guatemala, he was an artist.  He remained ever devoted to the practice of his professional skill, and at the same time kept up his interest in cowboy life, to the very end.

Borein also knew the Pueblo Indians and drew them and their villages.  It is not known what years Borein visited the Pueblo villages and put his thoughts on paper in the etching process but it would have been in the late 1800s or early 1900s. 

This etching of the Antelope Kiva of Walpi is recorded at Figure #220 in the catalog of his work The Etchings of Edward Borein published in 1971.  It was not signed by the artist.  In consultation with a serious collector of Borein, we learned that Borein signed his work at the time of a sale.  When he passed away, there were some of his etchings in his studio that remained unsigned.  His estate has continued selling these original etchings since his death.

Condition: the etching is in original condition and has just been framed with archival materials and a wood frame.

Provenance: from the collection of a resident from Santa Fe who is downsizing her large collection of paintings and prints.

Recommended Reading; The Etchings of Edward Borein—a Catalog of his Work by John Galvin