The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Interiors VII: The Train from Munich

1991

Peter Winslow Milton

(American, b. 1930)
publisher

Robert Townsend

America
etching and engraving
Platemark: 50.8 x 91.4 cm (20 x 36 in.)
Gift of Sabina and John Szoke 2023.90
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

A man portrayed to the left of the café window is Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews but who himself disappeared into Soviet Russia in 1945.

Description

Peter Milton’s large-scale, multilayered etching defies visual logic while telling a complex story, that of the last Kindertransport (children’s transport during the Nazi era) to leave Munich carrying his then twelve-year-old wife, Edith. Milton begins with drawings based on real people and places, often using historical photographs, which he reinvents as drawings on Mylar. He exposes the drawings to light-sensitive copper plates and then reuses them in various combinations, creating a collage effect. Here, ghostly apparitions interact with references to real people from history to evoke the near mythical dimensions of the second World War.
  • Peter Winslow Milton (the artist) [1930–]
    ?–2023
    (John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY), given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    June 5, 2023–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Johnson, Robert Flynn, and Peter Milton. Peter Milton: Complete Prints, 1960-1996. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. no. 113, p. 131.
  • {{cite web|title=Interiors VII: The Train from Munich|url=false|author=Peter Winslow Milton, Robert Townsend|year=1991|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.90