North Boulder Creek, Colorado, c. 1920, Etching.

Seeber 99. Edition not stated. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 3 13/16 x 6 15/16 inches (98 x 175 mm), sheet size 6 5/16 x 10 9/16 inches (160 x 268 mm).

A fine, luminous impression in dark sepia ink, with overall plate tone; full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), on cream laid paper. Barely visible light stain, otherwise in excellent condition.

$800.

Evening, Navajo Country, Arizona, c. 1929, Etching with Aquatint.

Seeber 293. Edition c. 150. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 9 11/16 x 11 7/8 inches (245 x 302 mm); sheet size 12 1/2 x 15 7/16 inches (318 x 392 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with full margins (1 1/8 to 1 7/8 inch), on Arches cream laid paper. Several slight surface scuffs only visible in raking light, otherwise in excellent condition.

In a letter dated Oct. 14, 1929, Burr wrote: "Evening, Navajo Country is intended to be a poem of twilight, in the great open desert, and like a fine poem, doesn't give all to one at once - I wish to put on copper the emotion I feel when out in the great open space, and the last glow of light touches with a parting caress, a softly billowing cloud - I played with this plate for a year, and put in it all I know as to a tonal finished plate. I never expect to do another like the Evening. It's my final display of etching carried to the limit . . . I had the plate steeled so that I would have a hundred prints all alike in quality."

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