BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.-The Birmingham Museum of Art presents Old Masters to Modern Methods - Prints from the Birmingham Museum of Art, on view through Monday, January 02, 2006. A rich survey of the museum’s rarely exhibited collection of fine art prints from the late fifteenth century to the present day. Highlights---ranging from woodcuts and engravings by the masterful printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), to exquisite etchings and drypoints by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Seymour Haden (1818-1910), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), to lithographs of Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) and Robert Rauschenberg (born 1925), to Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) radical use of screenprinting---illustrate the dynamic history of printmaking. Includes superb examples of the intaglio processes of engraving, etching, drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint as well as various relief and planographic techniques.Old Masters to Modern Methods will engage visitors with more than 100 prints and can be viewed as a primer for visitors to the Birmingham Museum of Art Print Fair occurring on September 10-11th, 2005.