# George Elbert Burr

American, 1859–1939

Burr worked as an illustrator in New York before spending several years travelling and sketching in Europe around 1900. Moving west for his health, he settled in Denver and later in Phoenix, and became best known for etchings of the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest, many worked with drypoint and aquatint and some inked in colour to suggest the light of dawn and dusk.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

3 works in the collection.

- [Sand Dunes, Harlech, North Wales](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/sand-dunes-harlech-north-wales-si-saam-1983-83-268), George Elbert Burr, 1899. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [New Moon and Evening Star](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/new-moon-and-evening-star-nga-146847), George Elbert Burr, c. 1932. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [Rhine at the Lurlei](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/rhine-at-the-lurlei-si-saam-1983-83-171), George Elbert Burr, 1900. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.