Raised in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of an avid amateur artist, Burr grew up in a house where the materials of art were never in short supply. She began painting at an early age. Burr honed her skill over several decades as a specialist in harpsichord decoration, antique restoration, and gilding. Working with her husband, the noted harpsichord maker Walter Burr, she immersed herself in seventeenth and eighteenth century techniques. Her paintings maintain this meticulous approach, releasing it into a larger space. While her luminous skyscapes show the influence of the Hudson River School and her carefully detailed paintings of draped cloth call to mind Italian Renaissance drapery, Burr's work is unmistakably of the moment.
"The expansive clouds are intimate; a place for meditation and beauty... The clouds, like pearls in a blue dome of air, are a haven where you can be alone with Burr's poetic, atmospheric beauty."
-Dian Parker, Art New England