Lester Boronda
SOLD
Title:
"Monterey Cypress"
Date:
c.1910
Size:
7" x 5 1/2"
Medium:
Oil on board
Monogram lower right
Titled and signed on reverse
Although born in Reno, NV on July 24, 1886, Boronda was a member of an early California family (his great-grandfather was a member of the second Junipero Serra expedition into Alta California in 1770). He was raised on a Salinas cattle ranch where today the family home is a state historical landmark.
His art studies began in San Francisco at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews, where he was a classmate of Thomas A. McGlynn and E. Charlton Fortune. He also studied at the ASL in NYC under Frank Vincent DuMond. The finishing touches to his art training were under Jean Paul Laurens in Paris and in Munich.
He was an early exhibitor at the Hotel Del Monte (1910). Leaving California in 1913, he moved to New York where he established an important craftsman center which specialized in wrought iron. His painting specialty in California had been genre of old Monterey and, after moving to the East, he painted street scenes of New York.
Titled and signed on reverse
Although born in Reno, NV on July 24, 1886, Boronda was a member of an early California family (his great-grandfather was a member of the second Junipero Serra expedition into Alta California in 1770). He was raised on a Salinas cattle ranch where today the family home is a state historical landmark.
His art studies began in San Francisco at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews, where he was a classmate of Thomas A. McGlynn and E. Charlton Fortune. He also studied at the ASL in NYC under Frank Vincent DuMond. The finishing touches to his art training were under Jean Paul Laurens in Paris and in Munich.
He was an early exhibitor at the Hotel Del Monte (1910). Leaving California in 1913, he moved to New York where he established an important craftsman center which specialized in wrought iron. His painting specialty in California had been genre of old Monterey and, after moving to the East, he painted street scenes of New York.
