George Elbert Burr Art
American, 1859-1939
George Elbert Burr was an American printmaker and painter best known for his etchings and drypoints of the desert and mountain regions of the American West. He enjoyed success early, providing illustrations for Harper's, Scribner's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Weekly, and The Cosmopolitan. In 1892, he began a four-year project illustrating a catalog of Heber R. Bishop's collection of jade antiquities for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This project, producing etchings of over a thousand artifacts, paid well enough for Burr to embark on an extended tour of Europe upon its completion with his wife. Over the next five years, as they traveled in Italy, Germany, and the British Isles, Burr amassed sketches and watercolors that would provide the source material for his copper plate etchings of European scenes. In 1924, the Burrs settled in Phoenix, Arizona, where he would remain for the rest of his life. The change of scenery allowed him to round out his oeuvre of Western landscapes with expansive views of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. He and his wife, who died in 1941, are buried in Cameron. Today, George Elbert Burr is widely considered to be one of the finest of the early 20th-century American etchers. His prints are in several prominent collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the British Museum, the French National Print Collection, Luxembourg Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Northern Arizona and the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C.
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Artist: George Elbert Burr
Morning Near Arizona, 1880s Summer Southwestern Desert Landscape Drawing
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Denver, CO
Morning Near Arizona, (Desert Landscape) is an original color pencil drawing from 1888 by George Elbert Burr (1859-1939). Portrays a spring/summer landscape with a tree and fauna, cl...
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1880s American Impressionist George Elbert Burr Art
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"A Mirage" signed etching / drypoint, trial proof
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Seeber 194. This impression on japon paper is annotated "trial proof" and pencil-signed and titled in the margin, with George Burr's monogram signature. The published edition consisted of 40 numbered impressions. Plate size: 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (175 x 250 mm). American Impressionist George Elbert Burr is best known for Southwestern Art...
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1920s George Elbert Burr Art
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Etching, Drypoint
Original Signed Lithograph Print of a Winter Landscape with Snow and Trees
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Denver, CO
Original signed lithograph print signed by George Elbert Burr (1859-1939) of a winter landscape with snow and trees. Presented in a custom frame with archival materials measuring 15 x 17 ¾ inches. Image size measures 7 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches.
About the Artist:
Born Ohio 1859
Died Arizona 1939
Ten years after his birth in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Elbert Burr moved with his parents to Cameron, Missouri, where his father opened a hardware store. Burr was interested in art from an early age and his first etchings were created with the use of zinc scraps found in the spark pan under the kitchen stove. He then printed the plates on a press located in the tin shop of his father’s store.
In December of 1878, Burr left for Illinois to attend the Art Institute of Chicago (then called the Chicago Academy of Design). By April of the following year, Burr had moved back to Missouri. The few months of study in Chicago constituted the only formal training the artist was to have. Back in Missouri, Burr heeded his family’s wishes by working in his father’s store. However, he did not abandon his art, often using his father’s railway pass to travel around the countryside on sketching trips.
In 1894, Burr married Elizabeth Rogers and the following year he became an instructor for a local drawing class. By 1888, the artist was employed as an illustrator for Scribner’s, Harper’s, and The Observer. In 1892, Burr began a four-year project to illustrate a catalog for the Metropolitan Museum of Art of Heber R. Bishop’s jade collection. After completing approximately 1,000 etchings of the collection, Burr used the money he earned on the project to fund a trip abroad. The artist and his wife spent the years between 1896 and 1901 sketching and traveling on a tour of Europe that spanned from Sicily to North Wales.
In 1906 the couple moved to Denver, Colorado, in an effort to improve George’s poor health. While in Colorado, Burr completed Mountain Moods, a series of 16 etchings. His years in Denver were highly productive despite his poor health. Burr’s winters were spent traveling through the deserts of Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. In 1921, Burr obtained copyrights on the last of 35 etchings included in his well-known Desert Set...
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20th Century American Modern George Elbert Burr Art
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Lithograph
'North Boulder Creek, Colorado' —Southwest American Impressionism
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Elbert Burr, 'North Boulder Creek, Colorado', etching, c. 1915, Seeber 99. A superb, luminous impression, in dark sepia ink, with skilfully wiped plate tone, on cream laid pap...
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1910s American Impressionist George Elbert Burr Art
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OASIS OF SEVEN PALMS CALIFORNIA
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Portland, ME
Burr, George Elbert. OASIS OF SEVEN PALMS CALIFORNIA. Gouache on paper, not dated. Titled in pencil, lower left, and signed in pencil, lower right, and with the number "85" at the lo...
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Early 20th Century George Elbert Burr Art
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Gouache
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