Plate size 4.75" x 6.75"
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Plate size 4.75" x 6.75"
Original 2 color dry point etching known as " Painting Place " or " Hilltop "
Signed in margin and initaled D B M in plate.
Born David Brown Milne in Burgoyne, Ontario, Canada, 8 January 1882. Studied at the Art Student's League in 1903 under Bridgman and Dumond. While in New York he exhibited at the American Water Color Society, Pennsylvannia Academy and in 1913 five of his works were shown at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory. Served as a Canadian war artist during WW1, he then spent most of life moving between the Adirondacks and Canada until the early 1930's. In the mid 30's he moved to Six Mile Lake, Ontario. He died in Bancroft, Ontario, 26 December 1953.
More about Painting Place / Hilltop
Printed between 1930/31 while Milne was living in Plagrave Ontario. The print is more or less a reverse image of Milne's oil Painting Place #3. A location known as "Gamble's Bald Spot", overlooking Big Mosse Lake, NY. He used Fabrino paper (quartered sheets) and zinc plates that had been reinforced with steel. All are pencil signed while some are also signed in the plate (see below). Incase you ever wondered the objects from left to right are a painters box, coffee jar, 2 ginger bottles and a small spruce sapling.
Tovell's book "THE PRINTS OF DAVID MILNE" provides the following states:
1) Signed in plate upper left "DA MILNE"
2) Signed in plate upper right "DA MILNE" and lower right "David B. Milne"
3) Signed in plate lower right "David B. Milne"
4) Not signed in plate.
5) Initialled in plate upper left "D.B.M"
6) Initialled in plate upper right "D.B.M"
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