Exhibition

This exhibition presents a wide range of printmaking processes such as relief (woodblock, woodcut, linocut) intaglio (engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint), planographic (lithograph, monotype) and stencil (screenprint, pochoir) prints.  Drawn from the Museum's Collections and dating from the late 16th to the 21st century, featured artists include Romare Bearden, Albrecht Durer, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Robert Kipniss, Andy Warhol, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler.

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Additional exhibition funding has been provided by Astoria Bank. 

This exhibition is also made possible with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Press Release: Six Centuries of Art from Woodblock to Digital Prints Examined

Press Release: At Hofstra, Printmaking From Dürer to Warhol and Beyond

Image

Andō Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858), Harima Province: Maiko Beach from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, 1853-1856, Woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 13 1/2 x 8 15/16 in., Gift of Helen Goldberg, HU2001.16.1