Evening - Painted Desert - Arizona

 

George Elbert Burr

  1859 - 1939 (biography)

c. 1928  

drypoint 

4 7/8 x 6 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower left 

unstated 

copyright symbol before signature; titled in lower right; monogram within image in lower right 

Seeber 269; American Etchers 269 

ivory laid with FJ Head & Co watermark 

published 

artist 

CLMI109 

$900.00 

In Evening Painted Desert – Arizona, Burr captured thunderclouds racing across the landscape promising moisture to the parched land. A twisted, lone juniper epitomizes the struggle of life within this arid landscape. Located in Northern Arizona, the Painted Desert is a broad region of rocky badlands encompassing more than 93,500 acres. Home to some of the nation’s most memorable formations and features, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and sunlight, all combined to create the Painted Desert. Deposits of clay and sandstone, stacked in elegant layers, reflects the setting Arizona sun in colorful radiance.