Milton Weiss First State Etching on Paper "Allegory"

Item Details

Milton Weiss (American; 1912-1995)
Allegory
First state etching on paper
Titled to lower left
Signed in graphite to lower right
15.75’ W x 12’ H

A first-state etching on paper titled Allegory by American artist Milton Weiss (1912-1995). This black and white work features an amalgam of various imagery including portrait busts, an bird medallions, and matrices of simple straight-edge delineations. The work is signed by hand in graphite to the lower right; it is also inscribed ‘1st state’ to the lower right and titled to the lower left. The work is not mounted and remains unframed.

Milton G. Weiss was an active artist in the Pittsburgh community for many years. He studied at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement with Sam Rosenberg and also spent a year at the Art Students League in New York. Weiss was employed as a WPA artist in Pittsburgh and a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. He taught at Ivy School of Professional Art and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Condition

- minor wear throughout paper edges; small perforations in corners of paper from previous display.

Dimensions

- measurement of sheet; plate marks measure approximately 15.75" W x 12" H.

Item #

18DCC307-021