Art, literature & history
Desert Sunset
1921
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with plate tone in greenish-black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.2 x 24.9 cm (6 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 25.5 x 34.1 cm (10 1/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1986.60.7
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Elbert Burr. Desert Sunset. George Elbert Burr; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Elbert_Burr,_Desert_Sunset,_1921,_NGA_69344.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Desert Sunset — George Elbert Burr. 1921.
Medium: etching with plate tone in greenish-black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 17.2 x 24.9 cm (6 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 25.5 x 34.1 cm (10 1/16 x 13 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1986.60.7. Gift of Mrs. John Farr Simmons.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.