[George Elbert Burr : artist file]

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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...