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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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- Arizona-Best of the WestFebruary 2004Editors, Southwest ArtSouthwest Art