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Museums page for George Elbert Burr ((1859 - 1939)), known for Etchings and paintings-desert landscape, botanical. Showing 16 museum collections and exhibitions.
George Elbert Burr MUSEUMS
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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Museums & Collections (16)
All MuseumsBuffalo Bill Center of the West
720 Sheridan Ave
Cody, WY 82414Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Desert Caballeros Western Museum
21 N. Frontier St.
Wickenburg, AZ 85390Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Mobile Museum of Art
4850 Museum Drive, Langan Park
P.O. Box 8426
Mobile, AL 36608Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Phippen Art Museum
4701 Highway 89 North
Prescott, AZ 86301San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Swope Art Museum
25 South Seventh Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807The Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division
949 East Second Street
Tucson, AZ 85719The John H. Vanderpoel Art Association
9625 S. Longwood Drive (Ridge Park)
Chicago, IL 60643The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002Tucson Museum of Art
140 N. Main Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85718