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Peter Milton
Born Lower Meron Township, PA 1930
Interiors II: Stolen Moments, 1986
Resist-ground etching and engraving
30 Ã- 24 inches
Edition 16/175

Value: $3,350

Peter Milton was born in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. He studied with famed graphic artists Gabor Peterdi and Josef Albers at Yale University during the 1950s. After being diagnosed with deuteranopia, his colorblindness led him to focus on black and white etchings that often display photorealistic detail. Milton combines the strange and the familiar, the past and the present in prints noted for their meticulous craftsmanship. Dreamlike, his complicated images seem to draw upon simultaneous events and memories. They often compress long periods of time into a single moment.

Milton's drawings, etchings, and engravings are in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the British Museum, among others. Two major book collections of his work have been published: The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993) and Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996).