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Peter MiltonDaylilies, by Peter Milton1975
1975
$12,500
£9,425.03
€10,901.43
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About the Item
Peter Milton’s Daylilies is a haunting meditation on memory, mortality, and the layered complexity of personal and cultural history. Like much of Milton’s work, the print operates less as a single scene and more as a palimpsest, where images, figures, and shadows overlap to create a dreamlike continuum. The composition feels at once intimate and spectral: a solitary man sits at the foreground, his bowed posture heavy with contemplation, while behind and around him float images of dancers, crowds, portraits, and symbols that blur the boundaries between recollection, imagination, and lived experience.
The architectural setting — walls, windows, mantelpiece — provides a frame of order, but Milton destabilizes this sense of stability by allowing ghostly presences to seep through it. Portraits of women, photographs, and historical figures suggest the persistence of the past, while the looming shadows remind us that memory is never fixed, always shifting with time. Even the small details, such as the cat with its glowing eyes, the suspended clock hands, or the cross and ankh, contribute to an atmosphere of unease and layered symbolism. Milton’s cross-hatched etching technique intensifies this ambiguity, producing a surface that is both precise and hazy, solid and dissolving.
The title Daylilies hints at ephemerality. Daylilies are flowers that bloom for only a short span, emblematic of life’s fleeting beauty. The man in the print becomes a figure of mourning or remembrance, caught in a liminal space where the past is replayed in fragments, and the present is overshadowed by memory’s weight.
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil from the edition of 160.
- Creator:Peter Milton (1930, American)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 19.63 in (49.87 cm)Width: 31.75 in (80.65 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Springs, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU308216889632
Peter Milton
Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania, he studied at VMI and completed his BFA and MFA at Yale University under Josef Albers and Gabor Peterdi. From 1961–68, he lived in Baltimore, where he taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. During this period he took an avid interest in printmaking. Over 50 years, he created intricate visual worlds in more than 130 prints, many of which took over a year to make. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life. His work is in over 200 collections including; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Massachusetts and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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