Object number2023.12.4

The Train From Munich

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Interiors VII

Date1991

Artist Peter Milton (American, b.1930)

CultureAmerican

MediumResist-ground etching and engraving

EditionEdition 23 of 25

DimensionsPlate: 20 x 35 3/4 in. (50.8 x 90.8 cm)
Matted: 27 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. (70.5 x 108.6 cm)
Sheet: 27 x 42 in. (68.6 x 106.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jo Citron, class of 1971

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed lower right margin in pencil: Peter Milton

InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower right margin in pencil: 91; lower center margin: THE TRAIN FROM MUNICH; lower left margin: INTERIORS VII XXIII/XXV

Catalogue raisonnéJohnson, 113BibliographyJohnson, Robert Flynn and Peter Milton. 1996. Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, pl. 113; Milton, Peter. The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton: a Cataglogue Raisonnè. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993, p. 86-91DescriptionBlack and white view of a train station with figures, animals, birds, and text. At center is a small building entrance with a doorman and doorway that seem to fade between real and imaginary. Text within the image appears to float within the scene and casts shadows behind it while birds appearing to be made of light flit in the lower right foreground. Train cars and figures are visible at left in the background.

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