George Elbert Burr papers

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George Elbert Burr papers

1885-1972

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A family history; income tax records and miscellaneous documents; correspondence, 1885-1939, including letters to Burr family friends the Smurthwaites concerning Burr; clippings and articles; writings; printed material; a scrapbook containing drawings and reproductions of Burr's work; photos of Burr, his family, his studio, subjects, and travels; printed material and photos from an 1891 western tour with President Benjamin Harrison; picture postcards; business records from the Biltmore Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, and consignment records from Cyrus Boutwell, Denver, Colorado, and the Miller-Sterling Company, Phoenix, Arizona; exhibition catalogues and invitations; two publications illustrated by Burr; an etching, "Arizona Night"; and reproductions of Burr's work. Burr's palette and miscellaneous items have not been microfilmed.

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Burr, George Elbert, 1859-1939

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American etcher and painter. From the description of Letter : to E. L. Allhusen, 1921 Dec. 29. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80260436 George Elbert Burr was born in Munroe Falls, Ohio in 1859. In 1879, he began his art studies at the Chicago Art Academy in Chicago, Ill. and during the 1880s and 1890s worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Because of failing health, in 1906, he moved...