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Desert Night

Desert Night, 1921

George Elbert Burr, American, 1859-1939
George Elbert Burr, American, 1859-1939

Aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper

Plate: 9 5/8 × 7 3/8 inches (24.4 × 18.7 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 inches (34.3 × 25.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund

21.82.3

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Landscape (representation)

Signed, in pencil, lower left: (copyright mark) George Elbert Burr Del. et Imp.

Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: No. 3/40 Inscribed, lower left corner: No 87

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

George Elbert Burr, Desert Night, 1921, aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund, 21.82.3.