Desert Sentinels, Apache Trail, Arizona, c. 1930

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Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.18 × 18.73 cm (5 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 21.59 × 27.31 cm (8 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Seeber 1971, no. 263

Accession Number

2015.143.88

Artists / Makers

George Elbert Burr (artist) American, 1859 - 1939

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: © [artist's monogram]; lower right in graphite: © George Elbert Burr; lower right in graphite: Desert Sentinels - Apache Trail - Arizona; lower center edge in graphite: [not deciphered] E.B. 6/16/30; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: #263

Marks and Labels

stamped center right verso in black ink (twice): F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1971: Seeber, Louise Combes. George Elbert Burr, 1859-1939: Catalogue Raisonné and Guide to the Etched Works. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1971, p. 135, no. 263.