The Little Canyon, c. 1925

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.92 × 11.27 cm (5 7/8 × 4 7/16 in.)

sheet: 22.38 × 15.88 cm (8 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Seeber 1971, no. 257

Accession Number

2015.19.1115

Artists / Makers

George Elbert Burr (artist) American, 1859 - 1939

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: GB [the artist's monogram]; lower left in graphite: George Elbert Burr; lower left edge in graphite: (This print in British Museum Collection of my work); lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 257 The Little Canyon, Arizona Etch; lower right corner in blue ink by unknown hand: (no. 2); lower left verso in blue colored pencil: S.K. Rule

Marks and Labels

stamped center verso in black ink: 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. 134, no. 257.