Peter Winslow Milton (born 1930) is a colorblind American artist who was diagnosed with deuteranopia after hearing a comment about the pink in his landscapes.[1]
Milton's black and white etchings and engravings often display photorealistic detail with a visionary aesthetic. His themes include architecture, history, myth, and memory, and their intersections and hidden juxtapositions. They often compress long periods of time into a single moment, as in "Family Reunion" and "The Train from Munich."[citation needed]
Milton received his MFA from Yale University in 1961. His work has been exhibited in most major museums in the U.S. and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the British Museum and the Tate Gallery, London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 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).
In its 2023 hardcover edition, the novel Little, Big by John Crowley (author) included eighty Peter Milton illustrations (as snippets taken from fifteen prior art works) and an appendix discussing Milton's work[2]
References
edit- ^ Angela Evancie (16 November 2014). "For One Artist, Colorblindness Opened Up A World Of Black And White". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Artist Peter Milton". Little, Big 24th Anniversary Edition.
External links
edit- Milton's official website.
- A useful career summary, critical survey, and interview.
- Peter Milton and the 25th anniversary edition of John Crowley's Little, Big.
- Peter Milton: "The Jolly Corner" prints, 1971, University Archives and Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Hays, Kim (20 January 1981). "Etched In Memory". The Boston Phoenix. 10 (3). Retrieved 23 January 2024.