ROCKLAND, ME.- The Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center presents the exhibit Imprints of Maine: 1900-1950 through June 03, 2007. This exhibition drawn entirely from the Farnsworth Museum’s outstanding collection of American prints presents a selection of approximately 40 images of Maine made by artist/printmakers at a pivotal time in the history of American art—a short 50 years that witnessed the flowering of modernism and the birth of abstract expressionism. The challenge of expressing modernist styles through this reductive and technically demanding medium engaged artists like Rockwell Kent, Caroll Thayer Berry, Leo Meissner and Pauline Inman. At the same time more traditionally oriented artists like Frank Weston Benson, Charles Herbert Woodbury, Sears Gallagher and Stow Wengenroth continued to build on the realist printmaking tradition that descended from old masters like Rembrandt and Durer. The highly individual responses of these artists to the Maine landscape, expressed through the fine art print, contributed to the building of a romantic vision of New England that continues to this day. This exhibition is part of the statewide Maine Print Project 2006.