Mortimer Borne, Nova Scotia, Color Drypoint , 1947. 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. Askart paper size: 11.50 x 15, mat size: 16 x 20. Title: Nova Scotia with Pine, 1947. Medium: Color Drypoint Etching. Size: 8 x 10 in. Signature: SLR. Artist: Mortimer Borne. Unframed.

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