Peter Milton Retrospective

1. Interiors VI : Soundings. Etching and engraving, 1989. Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 29 7/8 x 23 13/16� (76 x 60.6 cm). Very good condition. #38033 $3,600.00

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1a. Interiors VII : The Train from Munich. Original copper plate. Etching and engraving, 1991.

2. Interiors VII : The Train from Munich. Etching and engraving, 1991. Edition 175.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 20 x 35 5/8� (50.9 x 90.6 cm). Very good condition. #38037 $10,000.00

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PETER MILTON “I suppose what I am really working toward is a four-dimensional articulation — where images juggle with the time continuum as part of the enigma.”

Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania in 1930. He studied for two years at the Virginia Military Institute and completed his BFA in 1954 at Yale University under Josef Albers and Gabor Peterdi. Milton continued his studies at Yale and in 1961 received his MFA. From 1961-1968 Milton lived in Baltimore where he taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. It was during this period when Peter Milton took an avid interest in printmaking. Over the course of fifty years, Milton has created intricate visual worlds in more than 130 prints, many of which took well over a year to make.

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PETER MILTON RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION: LOOKING BACK FOR A CLEAR VIEW FORWARD EXHIBITION JANUARY 7 TO FEBRUARY 11, 2017 MEET THE ARTIST JANUARY 14, 2017, 1- 4 P.M.

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“Working in layers, Milton begins with drawings based on people and places, with nods to Western art history and culture. He is a master of the appropriated image, a term that may conjure Andy Warhol and his Pop Art comrades. But Milton steps further back in history, avoiding the Pop sense of cool advertising and popular culture references. Instead, a broader cultural past is tapped through historical photographs of key players, architecture, and locales, which he reinvents by hand. He adds content drawn from his life as an avid reader – always with multiple possible interpretations – thus incorporating deeper meaning in his cinematic worlds. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history, and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life.

One is hard-pressed to imagine a more erudite, skilled, passionate, and cheeky soul.

Since 2007 Milton has fearlessly produced artwork digitally. He now creates images using Adobe Photoshop in files consisting of more than two thousand layers, which are printed both as digital prints on paper and, for display on LED light boxes, on translucent, white-coated film called Duratrans. These intricate pictures are the logical next step; they carry his method of layered visual elements in etching forward to the digital realm. He continues to explore and always looks to the next thing: ‘I feel it is the trajectory of a never-ending adventure.’” – T. L. Johnson and A. Shafer “Always the frustrated myopic and still searching for acuity denied, I take a desperate dive head first into the microcosm of the pixel. At first, in the free fall of a computer illiterate, I start a hair raising digital learning curve which gradually levels out into the sweet trajectory of a new series. Acuity regained.”

Peter Milton 2007 Peter Milton has had over 110 single artist exhibitions since 1963. He had two exhibitions in 2016, Peter Milton: Living Old Master at Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, and Etching Enigmas, John Hopkins University Evergreen Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.

His work is in over 200 museum collections internationally including The Baltimore Museum of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale, British Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.

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3. Tsunami. Archival digital print on film, 2015. Edition 15. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 23 15/16 x 37” (59.3 x 94 cm). Very good condition. #89933 $12,000.00 This is a light box image that comes with the LED light box, black frame, and a dimmer.

This image is stunning within the light box presentation.

“This image was suggested to me by Mike Leigh’s cinematic account of Turner having himself tied to a ship’s mast in order to feel what a storm at sea actually feels like in order to really paint it. It is also a reminder of my own summer of 1950 working on an oil tanker off the Pacific coast and a treasured evocation of a few of my own pitching and yawing storms. . . .”

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4. Tsunami. Archival digital print, 2015. Edition 70. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 18 11/16 x 30” (47.5 x 76.2 cm). Very good condition. #92588 $2,200.00 Peter Milton’s digital prints come in two sizes: 18 11/16 x 30” with numbers 1-35 and 23 x 37” with numbers 36-70. The larger size is $2,500.00

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Peter Milton has several books written on his work and has worked on several book projects.

Peter Milton - Complete Prints 1960-1996. By Robert Flynn Johnson and Peter Milton. A Catalogue Raisonne with Essays. Chronicle Books, 1996.

165 pages, 117 illustrations, chronology, and bibliography. Dust jacket, cloth binding. 12143 $55.00 The Primacy of Touch - The Drawings of Peter Milton. A Catalogue Raisonne. Text by Peter Milton, introduction by Rosellen Brown. Hudson Hills Press, 1993. 131 pages, 115 illustrations, Dust jacket, cloth binding. #12145 $45.00 Aspern Papers. [Set of 8.]. I. Lago di Como. II. Piazza di San Marco. III. Campo Vio. IV. Scuola san Rocco. V. Giardini Reali. VI. Campo Santi.

VII. Ca’ Cappello. VIII. The Oval Portrait.

Digital prints, 2016. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 14 1/2 x 22” (36.8 x 56 cm). Very good condition. #92380 $4,500.00 The series is based on a novella by Henry James entitled “The Aspern Papers,” published in 1888.

5. Panorama I. Etching, 1963. Edition 35. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 3/4 x 23 5/8” (45.1 x 60.1 cm). Very good condition. #92595 $2,800.00

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6. Brueghelscape #2. Etching, 1964. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 18 x 36” (45.7 x 91.4 cm). Very good condition. Johnson/Milton #35. #91839 $2,800.00

7. Child’s Play. Etching and engraving, 1966. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 22 3/4 x 34 3/4” (57.6 x 88.5 cm). Very good condition. Johnson/Milton #46. #69275 $4,500.00

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8. Mornings with Judd. Etching and engraving, 1968. Edition 100. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 1/2 x 23 3/4� (44.5 x 60.3 cm). Very good condition. #92596 $5,500.00

9. Passage III. Etching and engraving, 1972. Edition 140. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 24 5/8 x 37 1/8� (62.8 x 92.5 cm). Very good condition. #58192 $5,000.00

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10. The Jolly Corner. Etching and engraving, 1971. Edition 150. Published by Aquarius Press, Baltimore. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. This set from the “collaborators” and numbered “G.” Average image size 14 7/8 x 9 3/4” (378 x 248 cm). Very good condition. #16119 $20,000.00.

Twenty-one etchings on Rives Buff paper. Each etching signed in pencil. The portfolio signed on the colophon. Folio with text and three sets of seven etchings in folders. Brown linen portfolio with gilt stamped leather labels. Edition of the portfolio is 150, numbered 1/150 to 150/150 + 5 artist’s proof portfolios. An additional eight portfolios lettered A to H are reserved for the collaborators. A deluxe edition of twenty-one that includes a second set of prints and one copper plate numbered I/XXI to XXI/XXI.

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11. Collecting with Rudi. Etching and engraving, 1974. Edition 140. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 5/8 x 29 3/4� (44.4 x 75 cm). Very good condition. #58188 $2,600.00.

12. The First Gate. Etching and engraving, 1974. Edition 140. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 5/8 x 30� (44.4 x 76.2 cm). Very good condition. #58189 $5,000.00

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13. Country Pieces I : The Couple. Etching, and engraving 1979. Edition 170. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 3/4 x 23 3/4” (45 x 60.5 cm). Very good condition.

Johnson/Milton #100. #58166 $1,200.00

14. Country Pieces II : In the Park. Etching, and engraving, 1979. Edition 170. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 3/4 x 23 3/4” (45 x 60.5 cm). Very good condition.

Johnson/Milton #101. #58168 $1,200.00

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15. April’s August. Engraving, 1975. Edition 160. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 31 7/8 x 19 7/8� (80.6 x 50.2 cm). Very good condition. #58185 $2,000.00

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16. Card House. Etching and engraving, 1975. Edition 160. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 20 x 27 1/2” (51 x 69.5 cm). Very good condition. #58170 $2,000.00

17. Daylilies. Etching and engraving with direct photographic transfer, 1975. Edition 160.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 19 3/4 x 31 5/8” (50 x 80.5 cm). Very good condition. Johnson/Milton #96. #58182 $15,000.00

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18. Second Opinion. Etching and engraving over altered transfer of Pastorale, 1974. Edition 140. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 21 3/4 x 27 7/8� (55.5 x 70.8 cm). Very good condition. #58174 $1,500.00

19. A Sky-Blue Life. Etching and engraving, 1976. Edition 160. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 25 3/4 x 33� (65.5 x 83.8 cm). Very good condition. #58191 $4,000.00

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20. Les Belles et La Bete I : The Rehearsal. Etching and engraving, 1977. Edition 160.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 19 5/8 x 35 5/8” (49.5 x 90.5 cm). Very good condition. #58184 $4,500.00

21. Les Belles et La Bete II : Before the Hunt. Etching and engraving, 1978. Edition 160.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 21 5/8 x 38 3/4” (54.6 x 98 cm). Very good condition. #58186 $4,500.00

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22. Interiors I : Family Reunion. Etching and engraving, 1984. Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 20 x 35 1/2” (50.8 x 90.3 cm). Very good condition. #38036 $10,000.00.

23. (left) Interiors II : Stolen Moments. Etching and engraving, 1986. Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 29 11/16 x 23 15/16” (75.5 x 60.8 cm). Very good condition. #38031 $3,000.00 24. (right) Interiors III : Time with Celia. Etching and engraving, 1986. Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 29 7/8 x 23 13/16” (76 x 60.6 cm). Very good condition. #38035 $3,000.00

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25. Interiors V : Water Music. Etching and engraving, 1988. Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 29 7/8 x 23 13/16” (76 x 60.6 cm). Very good condition. #38034 $3,000.00

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26. Points of Departure III : Twentieth Century Limited. Etching and engraving, 1998.

Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 23 7/8 x 37 3/4” (60.8 x 95.5 cm).

Very good condition. #58194 $4,200.00

27. (left) Under Greylock. (Second State: February II.) Published by John Szoke Gallery.

Etching and engraving, 1994. Edition 175. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Image size 18 1/4 x 15 1/16” (46.4 x 38.3 cm). Very good condition. Milton #115. #90526 $900.00 28. (right) Light Sweet Crude. Published by John Szoke. Etching and engraving, 1996.

Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 18 5/16 x 15 3/16” (46.5 x 38.6 cm).

Very good condition. #90527 $900.00

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29. Points of Departure I : Mary’s Turn. Etching and engraving, 1994. Edition 175. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 7/8 x 27 1/2” (45 x 70 cm). Very good condition. #58179 $4,200.00

30. Points of Departure II : Nijinsky Variations. (Second State.) Etching and engraving, 1996. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 23 3/4 x 37 1/2” (61.6 x 95 cm). Very good condition. #58343 $4,200.00

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31. Hidden Cities I : The Ministry. (Second State.) Etching and engraving, 2006. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 23 1/2 x 36 7/8� (59.8 x 93.4 cm). Very good condition. #58344 $3,600.00

32. Hidden Cities II : Embarkation for Cythera. Etching and engraving, 2004. Edition 140.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 23 3/4 x 36 1/2� (60.3 x 92.1 cm). Very good condition. #58345 $4,200.00

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33. Hidden Cities III : Continuum. Etching and engraving, 2006. Edition 140. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 24 x 37” (61 x 94 cm). Very good condition. #42022 $3,600.00

34. In Search of Lost Time. Etching and engraving, 2006. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 24 1/2 x 39 1/2” (62.4 x 99.9 cm). Very good condition. #58342 $4,200.00

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35. Sight Lines I : Tracking Shot. Photo etching and engraving. 2008. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 22 7/8 x 37� (57.8 x 94 cm). Very good condition. #60304 $3,000.00

36. Sight Lines II : The Green Room. Archival digital print, 2010. Edition 90. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 22 7/8 x 37� (57.8 x 94 cm). Very good condition. #69649 $2,800.00

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37. Sight Lines III : Eclipse. Archival digital print, 2011. Edition 90. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 23 x 37” (59.3 x 94 cm). Very good condition. #91848 $2,800.00

38. Sight Lines IV : The Studio. Archival digital print, 2012. Edition 90. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 23 x 37” (58.5 x 94 cm). Very good condition. #80044 $2,500.00

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39. Sight Lines V : Hide and Seek. Archival digital print, 2014. Edition 90. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 21 1/2 x 36 3/8� (54.6 x 92.5 cm). Very good condition. #86998 $2,500.00

40. En Plein Air. Archival digital print, 2016. Edition 70. Image size 21 x 34� (53.2 x 86.4 cm).

Very good condition. #92379 $2,800.00