About the artist:

Gabor Peterdi is perhaps best known as a master printmaker, though he has also made considerable contributions to the field of painting. Born in Pestujhely, Hungary, he studied at Academia de Belle Arti in Rome and later at Atelier 17 in Paris in the 1930s. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1930. He has worked alongside such artists as Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti, and Max Ernst. Peterdi was a great innovator of printmaking techniques. He devised elaborate ways of color printing by collaging copper plates. Color is a primary interest for Peterdi, which is evident in his 1966 etching, Aquarium. He has devoted his life to his art and teaching; teaching at such renowned universities as the Brooklyn Museum of Art School in New York and Yale University. Dates:1915-2001Budapest, Hungary Studied:1930 1934-35Academia de Belle Arti, Rome Atelier 17, Paris Taught:1948-52 1952-60 1960-87Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York Hunter College, New York Yale University, New Haven, CT Selected Awards:1930 1937 1960 1961Prix de Rome Paris World's Fair Gold Medal (with Lurcat) Ford Foundation Grant Pennel Medal Exhibitions:Over 200 one-man exhibitions in the United States and abroad including 20 retrospectives. Selected Collections:Alblright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Basel Kunstmuseum, Switzerland Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA The Brooklyn Museum, NY Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Cleveland Museum of Art, OH The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Flint Institute of Arts, MI Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN Kunstverein, Bremen, Germany Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany Library of Congress, Washington, DC Los Angeles County Museum, CA Maggar Nemszeti Galeria, Budapest, Hungary The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Musee de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada Museu de Arta Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland Museum of Caracas, Venezuela Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Nazionale Museum, Rome, Italy William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO Roy Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase The New Museum, New School of Social Research, New York The Oakland Museum, CA The Pasadena Art Museum, CA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Portland Art Museum, OR Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland Seattle Art Museum, WA Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary University of Alberta, Canada University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT