Object number2023.12.5

Daylilies

Date1975

Artist Peter Milton (American, b.1930)

CultureAmerican

MediumResist-ground etching and engraving with photographic transfer

EditionEdition 140 of 160, plus unnumbered, full edition of 245

DimensionsPlate: 19 7/8 x 32 in. (50.5 x 81.3 cm)
Matted: 27 1/2 x 38 3/4 in. (69.8 x 98.4 cm)
Sheet: 25 1/2 x 38 in. (64.8 x 96.5 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: 75; lower center margin: DAYLILIES; lower left margin: 140/160

Catalogue raisonnéJohnson, 96BibliographyJohnson, Robert Flynn and Peter Milton. 1996. Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, pl. 96; Milton, Peter and Kneeland McNulty. 1977. Peter Milton Complete Etchings 1960-1976. Boston: Impressions Workshop, cover, pl. 96; Milton, Peter. The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton: a Cataglogue Raisonnè. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993, p. 35DescriptionA black and white view of an interior space with a man seated in the foreground visible from the chest up and petting a black cat with daylilies surrounding it. Behind the man is a mantel and a a scene that appears to vacillate from real to imagined, filled with people, dancers, birds flying, picture frames, and a clock. The work is rendered in a near hyper-realistic print style.

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