Collecting with Rudi

1974

Peter Milton

Associated Names
Peter Milton

Artist, American, born 1930

Robert E. Townsend

Printer, American

This is a black-and-white print that shows a garden in front of five multi-story buildings with tall, wide windows and steep roofs. A pathway in the center splits the garden in two. There is low fencing and two large trees on the left and right edges. In the back left are three houses situated down a sloping hill. The same kind of buildings are depicted in the middle on the right side in the background. The garden starts to go way past the foreground and well into the background to the buildings on the right. There are seven human figures in the foreground and five in the background. Two additional figures in the back right are barely visible. On the far left a nude figure faces forward. In the center two figures are standing side by side looking toward us. To the right two figures in darker clothing are standing next to each other with their attention directed to the front. Next to them is a dog facing the people in the center. In the bottom there is a small child in a white dress standing by herself facing forward. In the center is a rectangular box of a nude woman laying down in the bed with a pillow under her and a hat on her left side. Upon closer inspection, the box appears to be a painting or photograph of a nude woman.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hardground etching and engraving in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Francis D. Lethbridge)

  • Dimensions

    plate (irregular): 50.17 × 75.25 cm (19 3/4 × 29 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 70.8 × 99.7 cm (27 7/8 × 39 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.2947

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Johnson & Milton 1996, no. 92


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Lethbridge, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1996

  • Johnson, Robert Flynn, and Peter Milton. Peter Milton: Complete Prints, 1960-1996. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996, pp. 102, 150-151, no. 92.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 93/140; lower center in graphite: Collecting with Rudi; lower right in graphite: P W Milton 74

Markings

embossed lower left: [Impressions Workshop]; embossed lower left: [Robert E. Townsend]

Wikidata ID

Q77012353

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