Hazy grayscale collage of overlapping images. In the foreground, a man in a tuxedo in a drawing room. Behind him, a collaged image of various figures interacting with each other.

Peter Winslow Milton

Daylilies

Maker

Peter Winslow Milton (American, b. 1930)

Title

Daylilies

Year

1974

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink

Supports

Dimensions

50.2 x 80 cm (19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and gift of Mr.and Mrs. Gilman Angier

Object Number

81.052

Type

Exhibition History

Variance
Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability
Feb 01, 2022 – Oct 09, 2022

Label copy

Using an incredible range of black tones, artist Peter Winslow Milton fills this preparatory drawing with minute details and mysterious scenes within scenes. From the whimsical cat at bottom center to the foggy ballet dancers at upper right, it underscores nuance, variation, and texture.

Milton made a conscious decision in pivoting to this aesthetic: “Because I did have a measurable color blindness (it was diagnosed at John Hopkins University in 1962), I really felt I had to give up color because . . . I could never be sure that what I was seeing was what anybody else was seeing. . . . [W]hen I went into printmaking, I made a one-for-one substitution of texture for color. And in the end, I didn’t feel that I’d given up anything.”

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Tombstone

Peter Winslow Milton (American, b. 1930)
Daylilies, 1974
Ink and collage on Mylar
50.2 x 80 cm (19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches)
Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and gift of Mr.and Mrs. Gilman Angier 81.052

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