David Brown Milne 1882-1953

David Brown Milne ( 1882 – 1953 )CGP CSGA CSPWC
Title “Hilltop” or “Painting Place”
Size: Plate size 4.75″ x 6.75″ ( 16 1/8” x 17 3/4” framed ) ……. $1950.00 Canadian.

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 Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania 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 his life moving between the Adirondacks and Canada until the 1930’s. In the mid 1930’s he moved to Six Mile Lake, Ontario. He died in Bancroft, Ontario, 26 December 1953.

More about Hilltop / Painting Place

Printed between 1930/1931 while Milne was living in Palgrave, 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 Moose 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). In-case 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:

Signed in plate upper left “DA MILNE”
Signed in plate upper left “DA MILNE” and lower right “David B. Milne”
Signed in plate lower right “David B. Milne”
Not signed in plate.
Initialed in plate upper left “D.B.M.”
Initialed in plate upper right “D.B.M.”