October Piece
1969
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View on museum website →Medium
lift-ground and hardground etching with engraving in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 45 x 60.7 cm (17 11/16 x 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. Thomas A. Mathews, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.236.1
About the Artist
Peter Milton
Peter Winslow Milton, born on April 2, 1930, in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, moved with his family to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1938. He attended the Darrow School, followed by two years at the Virginia Military Institute, before pursuing formal art training at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, where he studied under Josef Albers and earned his BFA in 1954 and MFA in 1961. Initial...