Mortimer Borne
Artist: Mortimer Borne (1902 – 1987)
Date: 1971
Medium: Painting on canvas
Dimensions: 32” x 17”
Artist’s Country of Birth: Poland
Collecting Genre: Practicing Artist
Accession Number: 1924
Visual Description: Abstract figural on on canvas without gesso.
Notes from Ray: Mortimer Borne (1902 – 1987) was active/lived in New York. Mortimer Borne is known for New York scene, drypoint, landscape. Mortimer Borne was born in Rypin, Poland in 1902 and emigrated to the US in 1916. He studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students League, The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and with Charles Webster Hawthorne, founder of the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown. Borne himself taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967. After moving to Nyack, New York, he established the Tappan Zee Art Center in his home there. Borne was the inventor of the color drypoint technique. He worked in oil, drypoint, and sculpture. He was collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery of Art, and The Victoria and Albert Museum, among many others. Subject matter for which he is known includes New York City street and subway scenes, Eastern US landscapes and seascapes, portraits and still-lifes.
Est Current Value: $700
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