First Snow (No. 1)
c. 1914
Medium
drypoint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.57 × 8.89 cm (3 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 19.05 × 15.56 cm (7 1/2 × 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1113
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George Elbert Burr · 1859–1939
George Elbert Burr was an American printmaker and watercolorist whose career spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, earning him a reputation as one of the foremost etchers of the American West. Born in 1859 in Monroe Falls, Ohio, Burr trained as a commercial illustrator before turning his full attention to fine art. He honed his craft through diligent self-study and close obser...