Peter Milton (1930 - )

For 45 years Peter Milton has been in the first rank of American printmakers. With representation in well over 100 public collections nationally and internationally, Milton has had solo exhibitions in London, Paris, Osaka and Seoul, as well as in most major cities in the U.S. He has served as a visiting artist at Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia and Rhode Island School of Design. Fitch-Febvrel has perhaps the largest inventory of older prints by Peter Milton, as well as all the more recent work.

Born: 1930, Lower Merion, Pennsylvania
Married: Edith Cohn, 1961
Children: Jeremy, born 1963; Naomi, born 1964
Education: Virginia Military Institute, 1948—1950
  Yale University, BFA 1954, MFA 1961
Teaching: University of Bridgeport (Art History), 1959
  Yale University (Teaching Assistant), 1960
  Maryland Institute, 1961—1968
  Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk, 1970
Artist-in-Residence: University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 1982
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1983
  Pasadena City College, CA, 1999
  Weber State University, Ogden, UT, 2004
Visiting Artist: Dartmouth College, 1971
  Yale University 1972, 1979, lecture series on contemporary printmaking, 1988
  Columbia University, 1980
  Middlebury College, 1981
  Melbourne and Sydney, Australia: lectures under a grant from the Australia Council to the Arts, l982
  Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1984
  University of Florida, Gainesville, 1985
  State University of New York at Purchase, 1985
  Rhode Island School of Design, 1985
  Two River Printmaking Studio, 2001
  Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 2004
  Winthrop University, Black Rock, SC, 2004
Awards: Yale-Norfolk Residency, 1953
  Yale Traveling Fellowship, 1954
  Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, 1963
  1st prize, Festival de Artes Graficas, Cali, Colombia, 1969
  Grand Prize, 2nd Festival of Art, Seoul, Korea, 1972
  Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 1990
  Medal of Honor, Interprint '90, Lvov, Ukraine, 1990
  Awards Exequo of the Triennial, International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Cracow, Poland, 1991
  Triennial Special Prize, International Print Triennial, Cracow, Poland, 1997
  Honorable Gold Diploma, 9th International Print Biennial, Varna Bulgaria, 1997
  Commendatory Award, 3rd International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti Finland, 1998
  Gold Medal, International Print Triennial, Friedrikstad, Norway, 1999
  The Honorable Mention, International Print Triennial, Cracow, Poland, 2003
  Special Jury Award, 13th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria, 2005
Selected Public Collections: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
  British Museum, London, England
  Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
  Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
  Museo de Arte Moderno "La Tertulia", Cali, Colombia
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  National Collection of Fine Art, Washington, DC
  National Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
  Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  Tate Gallery, London, England
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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