GEORGE ELBERT BURR "THE DESERT" DRYPOINT ETCHING

George Elbert Burr (1859 - 1939) "The Desert" Drypoint Etching on Paper. Born in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Burr became a noted etcher as well as pastel and watercolor painter of desert and Rocky Mountain scenes. In 1890, he became an itinerant illustrator for Harper's and Leslie's Weekly, and also did a commission of 1000 pen-and-ink- drawings for a Metropolitan Museum catalog of a bronze and jade collection owned by Heber R. Bishop. The money he made from this and other Bishop commissions allowed him to travel in Europe for four years, and he did hundreds of sketches there. In search of a better climate for his health, he moved to Denver in 1906, but he and his wife spent their winters in the deserts of New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. From these travels, he did his most famous etchings, a series called "Desert Set." He settled in Phoenix in 1924, and lived there until his death in 1939 at age eighty. Artist: George Elbert Burr Title: "The Desert" Medium: Drypoint Etching Signature Type: Pencil Signature | Signature Location: Lower Left | Site Measurement: 6.25" x 8" Plate | Ref: BD1923

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