Summer Landscape IV
1963
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lift-ground etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.2 x 44.9 cm (11 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.) sheet: 45.2 x 60.2 cm (17 13/16 x 23 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner
Accession Number
1991.116.102
Art Historical Context
**Summer Landscape IV** by Milton, created in 1963, visitors into a serene yet intricately rendered vision of nature. This lift-ground etching in black on wove papermeasuring 30.2 x 44.9 cm on the plate—exemplifies mid-20th-century American printmaking at its most innovative. Housed in the National Gallery of Art a gift from Mrs. A. Hauslohner, it belongs to the museum's distinguished print collection (Department CG-W), highlighting the era's revival of etching as a fine art medium. Lift-ground etching, a technique Milton mastered, involves applying a water-soluble ground that is selectively ...
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...