Desert Sentinels, Apache Trail, Arizona

c. 1930

George Elbert Burr

Artist, American, 1859 - 1939

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2015.143.88

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Seeber 1971, no. 263

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q77008540

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