🤠This Week in the West

📢 Episode Summary:

The podcast highlights Borein’s insistence on authenticity in his art, a quality that distinguished him from many artists who romanticized the West from afar. Listeners learn how Borein’s firsthand experiences shaped his illustrations for major publications like Harper’s, Collier’s Weekly and The Saturday Evening Post. The episode also covers his friendships with influential Western figures, including Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody and fellow artist Charles Marion Russell, who encouraged Borein’s development as a painter.

The final portion of the episode follows Borein’s return to California in the 1920s, where he refined the etching style that would make him famous. His studio in Santa Barbara became a gathering place for artists and storytellers, while his work documented cowboy life, stagecoaches, missions and Indigenous communities with remarkable detail. The episode concludes by examining Borein’s lasting legacy, including his inclusion in the permanent collection of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and his posthumous induction into the Hall of Great Westerners in 1971.

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