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Master Prints from Upstate New York Museums brought together nearly 100 works from the 15th century to the present. The exhibition of European and American works in all print media was the sixth of cooperative projects undertaken by the museum alongside the Albany Institute of History and Art; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. 

The exhibition was comprised of woodcuts, etchings, engravings, silkscreens, and lithographs by some of the world’s best-known printmakers, including Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, James McNeill Whistler, and Francisco Goya. The collection of the Albright-Knox was represented by modern and contemporary artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, and Ellsworth Kelly.

An illustrated catalogue with 20 color plates was written by Nancy Green, with Franklin Robinson, Director, and Todd Weyman, Mellon Print Room Assistant, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

This exhibition was organized by Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs Nancy E. Green at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca.