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EARLY AMERICAN MONOTYPE GEORGE E. BURR An Old Farm House.
Monotype printed in black on cream laid paper, circa 1885. 116x192 mm; 45/8x75/8 inches, full margins. Signed and inscribed "Monotype of an old farm house, in 1885" in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce, early print.
With--A letter in pen and ink describing the house that was "on the old Bassett farm south of Cameron, MO" and explaining that it was where George E. Burr and wife, Elizabeth Rogers, lived before leaving Missouri for New York, signed by Linn and Eva Burr.
Though born in Ohio, Burr (1859-1939), moved with his family when he was 10 years old to Cameron, MO, where his father owned a hardware store. Despite only 3 months of training at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1870s, Burr became an accomplished illustrator, working for Harper's and Leslie's Weekly by the late 1880s.
His earliest forays into printmaking were at his father's hardware store, where he used metal scraps to print monotypes and intaglios on his father's tin press (used to make tin cans for the store). By 1892, he and his wife had left the Midwest for New York, where he began a 4-year project producing etchings to illustrate a book on Herbert R. Bishop's jade collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
