By: Peter Milton

Medium: Resist Ground Etching & Engraving            
Edition Size: 17
Year: 1994    

Peter Milton’s Mary’s Turn reimagines a scene where Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas engage in a game of billiards, reflecting their real-life friendship and rivalry. Cassatt leans forward to take her shot, while Degas watches with quiet intensity. The richly detailed interior, filled with framed artworks, onlookers, and luminous floating spheres, creates Milton’s signature dreamlike atmosphere.

At the far right, the artist includes a subtle self-portrait, placing himself as both observer and participant in this imaginative tableau. Blending art history, narrative, and technical brilliance, Mary’s Turn exemplifies Milton’s ability to collapse time and space into a single, enigmatic vision.