In the Meadows at Windsor

A landscape sketch by George Elbert Burr capturing a meadow scene near Windsor with a row of trees receding into the distance. Burr, an Ohio-born artist (1859–1939), worked primarily in etching and drawing, developing a distinctive approach to rendering foliage and atmospheric perspective through hatching and linear marks. This study demonstrates the careful observational practice that characterized American landscape artists of the period, using pen or pencil to establish compositional structure and tonal variation. The sketch's informal notation—recording location and date—reflects the artist's method of studying natural effects directly from nature, studies that would inform his later finished works.