Featured in this lot is this hand signed and framed etching titled "Road to Paradise Valley" by American artist George Elbert Burr born in 1859 and died in 1939; the etching was housed in the Thomas Nygard Gallery out of Bozeman Montana and includes a Gallery tag on the back. The artwork features a wonderfully and professionally crafted etching construction that shows Saguaro cactus in a deep desert environment with a hill in the background. The etching is hand signed by the artist in the left hand corner. The rustic gilt wooden frame shows a plaque mounted on the bottom that reads as follows: George Elbert Burr - 1859-1939. George Burr hand signed the etching in the bottom left hand corner. The rustic gilt frame has a plaque mounted on the frame and reads as follows: George Elbert Burr - 1859-1939. George Elbert Burr (1859-1939) was an American printmaker and painter best known for his etchings and drypoints of the desert and mountain regions of the American West. He enjoyed success early, providing illustrations for Harper's, Scribner's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Weekly, and The Cosmopolitan. In 1892, he began a four-year project illustrating a catalog of Heber R. Bishop's collection of jade antiquities for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This project, producing etchings of over a thousand artifacts, paid well enough for Burr to embark on an extended tour of Europe upon its completion with his wife. Over the next five years, as they traveled in Italy, Germany, and the British Isles, Burr amassed sketches and watercolors that would provide the source material for his copper plate etchings of European scenes. Today George Elbert Burr is widely considered to be one of the finest of the early 20th-century American etchers. His prints are in a number of prominent collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the British Museum, the French National Print Collection, Luxembourg Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Northern Arizona. and the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C. The condition of this framed etching is well preserved with no obvious signs of damage with and shows a well preserved overall condition. The measurements of this framed etching is 14 1/8" x 16" and the visible etching measures 6" x 8". The collective weight of this framed etching is 2lb 10oz.