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1859 Monroe Falls, Ohio - 1939 Phoenix, Arizona. Known for: Etchings and paintings-desert landscape, botanical.
Born in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Burr became a noted etcher as well as pastel and watercolor painter of desert and Rocky Mountain scenes. He produced over 1000 watercolors and pulled more than... Read full biography
Born in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Burr became a noted etcher as well as pastel and watercolor painter of desert and Rocky Mountain scenes. He produced over 1000 watercolors and pulled more than 25,000 etchings generally small in size and showing "the miniaturist's precise delicacy". (Samuels 77).... Read full biography
Born in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Burr became a noted etcher as well as pastel and watercolor painter of desert and Rocky Mountain scenes. He produced over 1000 watercolors and pulled more than 25,000 etchings generally small in size and showing "the miniaturist's precise delicacy". (Samuels 77). George Burr had early art instruction from his mother, and when he was ten, moved with his family to Cameron, Missouri, where his father bought a hardware store. The young George began experimenting... Read full biography
Born in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Burr became a noted etcher as well as pastel and watercolor painter of desert and Rocky Mountain scenes. He produced over 1000 watercolors and pulled more than 25,000 etchings generally small in size and showing "the miniaturist's precise delicacy". (Samuels 77). George Burr had early art instruction from his mother, and when he was ten, moved with his family to Cameron, Missouri, where his father bought a hardware store. The young George began experimenting early with etching techniques and then studied for three months at the Art Institute of Chicago, his only formal training. In 1890, he became an itinerant illustrator for Harper's and Leslie's Weekly, and also did a commission of 1000 pen-and-ink-... Read full biography
Born in Monroe Falls, Ohio, George Burr became a noted etcher as well as pastel and watercolor painter of desert and Rocky Mountain scenes. He produced over 1000 watercolors and pulled more than 25,000 etchings generally small in size and showing "the miniaturist's precise delicacy". (Samuels 77). George Burr had early art instruction from his mother, and when he was ten, moved with his family to Cameron, Missouri, where his father bought a hardware store. The young George began experimenting early with etching techniques and then studied for three months at the Art Institute of Chicago, his only formal training. 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.&n... Read full biography
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Keywords (42)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Itinerant Artist
Art Media
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Desert Landscape
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •California Before 1940
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •Society of American Etchers/Brooklyn Society of Etchers
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
- •Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
- •Walter Bimson Western Art Collection
Added Description
- •Botany Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Smithsonian Institution/Museums