Show Notes for bonus ONE PRINT episode: Peter Milton
Back in 2023, Tru Ludwig and Ann Shafer recorded a bonus HoP episode featuring a conversation about a single work of art, Käthe Kollwitz's Battlefield, 1907. More than 18 months later, they are offering up a second installment, this time on Peter Milton's The Train from Munich, 1991.
As was the case with the first episode, they are taking a single work they consider to be a high point in the history of prints, and pulling it apart exploring its subject matter, technique, style, and composition. It's a deep, deep dive into a single work--what a luxury.
May this conversation resonate with you. Send in your feedback and suggestions for other great prints worthy of a 90-minute episode.
USEFUL LINKS
https://www.petermilton.com/the-prints
https://oldprintshop.com/artists/3098
Ann and Tru’s exhibition catalogue: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/583c833659cc68a8c3c56675/t/597ba3d6e6f2e1d8bcadd207/1501275102477/EVERGREEN++CATALOG.pdf
Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Interiors VII: The Train from Munich, 1991. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Hidden Cities II: Embarkation for Cythera, 2004. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 24 x 37 in. (61 x 94 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Copper plate for Hidden Cities II: Embarkation for Cythera, 2004. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 24 x 37 in. (61 x 94 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Copper plate for Daylilies, 1975. Resist-ground etching and engraving, and direct photographic transfer. Plate: 20 x 32 in. (50.8 x 81.3 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Peter Milton (American, born 1930). In the Study from The Aspern Papers: The Oval Portrait, 1993. Graphite. Sheet: 661 × 876 mm. (26 × 34 1/2 in.). The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchased as the gift of Jeannette Kimmel, Chapel Hill, and an Anonymous Donor. © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
[DETAIL] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). In the Study from The Aspern Papers: The Oval Portrait, 1993. Graphite. Sheet: 661 × 876 mm. (26 × 34 1/2 in.). The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchased as the gift of Jeannette Kimmel, Chapel Hill, and an Anonymous Donor. © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Points of Departure III: Twentieth Century Limited, 1998. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 24 x 38 in. (61 x 96.5 cm.). © 2025 Peter Milton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Ann Shafer talking with Conrad Graeber in Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
MICA student Tommy Doyle inspects the copper plate for Milton’s A Sky-Blue Life, 1976.
Tru Ludwig’s selective polishing of Milton’s copper plate for Interiors I: Family Reunion, 1984.
Tru Ludwig and Peter Milton inspect Rembrandt’s Three Crosses in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Study Room, 2016.
Tru Ludwig and Peter Milton inspect his own drawing for The Aspern Papers in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Study Room, 2016.
Ann Shafer, Peter Milton, and Tru Ludwig, Francestown, NH, 2014.
Edith and Peter Milton visit the exhibition at Evergreen Museum & Library, 2016.
In Milton’s New Hampshire studio, the artist shows Tru Ludwig and Ann Shafer studies for A Sky-Blue Life, 1976.
In Milton’s New Hampshire studio, the artist shows Tru Ludwig the plates for A Sky-Blue Life, 1976.
In Milton’s New Hampshire studio, the artist shows Tru Ludwig the plates for and an impression of A Sky-Blue Life, 1976.
In Milton’s New Hampshire studio, the artist shows Tru Ludwig the plate for The Train from Munich, 1991.
In Milton’s New Hampshire studio, the artist shows Tru Ludwig the plate for Hotel Paradise Café, 1987.
Milton’s New Hampshire studio.
Tru Ludwig polishing Milton’s plate for Interiors IV: Hotel Paradise Café, 1987.
Tru Ludwig polishing Milton’s plate for Interiors IV: Hotel Paradise Café, 1987.
Tru Ludwig polishing Milton’s plate for A Sky-Blue Life, 1976, while MICA graduate Raj Bunnag takes a photo.
Tru Ludwig’s reflection in Milton’s copper plate for Interiors I: Family Reunion, 1984.
[Detail] Peter Milton (American, born 1930). Visions and Revisions, 2001. Resist-ground etching and engraving. Plate: 25 x 40 in. (63.5 x 101.6 cm.). Courtesy of the Artist.
Installation shot featuring the copper plate for Daylilies. Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Installation shot of Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Milton’s digital print, Sight Lines VI: Shootout in Verona, 2015, installed on a lightbox in Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Installation shot with Hotel Paradise Café (left) and The Train from Munich (right) in Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Installation shot with copper plates for The Train from Munich (left), Hotel Paradise Café (center), and Family Reunion (right) in Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig with Evergreen Museum & Library Director James Archer Abbott in the exhibition Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Peter Milton talks to MICA History of Prints students in the exhibition Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas. Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
Ann Shafer
Curator / Podcaster / Blogger / Cyclist
Ann Shafer is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and a leading expert on intaglio printmaking by Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17. Formerly Shafer was associate curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has also held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Art. Shafer has a BA from The College of Wooster and an MA from Williams College. (Photo credit: Becky Redett)
