President of the Mystic Art Association.
Lester Boronda was a member of one of California’s early Spanish families. His great-grandfather was a member of the second Junipero Serra expedition into Alta California in 1770. Boronda 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 as a classmate of Thomas A. McGlynn and E. Charlton Fortune. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York under F. Dumond, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens.
He did little painting in California, spending only 1912-1913 in Monterey.
He exhibited at the Del Monte Art Gallery in Monterey and then in 1913 moved to New York where he established a craftsman center and spent most of his career.
As a painter, he did genre scenes of old Monterey and then in New York did street scenes. He also painted at Mystic, Connecticut, and Paris. He usually signed his paintings in a cursive "Lester D Boronda", sometimes using ink. He sometimes included figures in his paintings, in a somewhat bucolic and romantic settings.
Boronda died at New Canaan, Connecticut on September 19, 1953.
In addition to painting, he was a noted sculptor, working primarily in wrought iron.
Lester Boronda was a member of one of California’s early Spanish families. His great-grandfather was a member of the second Junipero Serra expedition into Alta California in 1770. Boronda 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 as a classmate of Thomas A. McGlynn and E. Charlton Fortune. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York under F. Dumond, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens.
He did little painting in California, spending only 1912-1913 in Monterey.
He exhibited at the Del Monte Art Gallery in Monterey and then in 1913 moved to New York where he established a craftsman center and spent most of his career.
As a painter, he did genre scenes of old Monterey and then in New York did street scenes. He also painted at Mystic, Connecticut, and Paris. He usually signed his paintings in a cursive "Lester D Boronda", sometimes using ink. He sometimes included figures in his paintings, in a somewhat bucolic and romantic settings.
Boronda died at New Canaan, Connecticut on September 19, 1953.
In addition to painting, he was a noted sculptor, working primarily in wrought iron.
President of the Mystic Art Association.
Lester Boronda was a member of one of California’s early Spanish families. His great-grandfather was a member of the second Junipero Serra expedition into Alta California in 1770. Boronda 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 as a classmate of Thomas A. McGlynn and E. Charlton Fortune. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York under F. Dumond, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens.
He did little painting in California, spending only 1912-1913 in Monterey.
He exhibited at the Del Monte Art Gallery in Monterey and then in 1913 moved to New York where he established a craftsman center and spent most of his career.
As a painter, he did genre scenes of old Monterey and then in New York did street scenes. He also painted at Mystic, Connecticut, and Paris. He usually signed his paintings in a cursive "Lester D Boronda", sometimes using ink. He sometimes included figures in his paintings, in a somewhat bucolic and romantic settings.
Boronda died at New Canaan, Connecticut on September 19, 1953.
In addition to painting, he was a noted sculptor, working primarily in wrought iron.
Lester Boronda was a member of one of California’s early Spanish families. His great-grandfather was a member of the second Junipero Serra expedition into Alta California in 1770. Boronda 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 as a classmate of Thomas A. McGlynn and E. Charlton Fortune. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York under F. Dumond, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens.
He did little painting in California, spending only 1912-1913 in Monterey.
He exhibited at the Del Monte Art Gallery in Monterey and then in 1913 moved to New York where he established a craftsman center and spent most of his career.
As a painter, he did genre scenes of old Monterey and then in New York did street scenes. He also painted at Mystic, Connecticut, and Paris. He usually signed his paintings in a cursive "Lester D Boronda", sometimes using ink. He sometimes included figures in his paintings, in a somewhat bucolic and romantic settings.
Boronda died at New Canaan, Connecticut on September 19, 1953.
In addition to painting, he was a noted sculptor, working primarily in wrought iron.
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