PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art examines the print portfolio as a vital printmaking format among such European and American artists as El Lissitzky, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock with "Out of the Box: 20th Century Print Portfolios," on view in the Stieglizt Gallery through June 23, 2002. Eleven print portfolios from the permanent collection provide visitors with a rare opportunity to see the creative statement of each featured artist in its entirety. Some portfolios, such as Ellsworth Kelly's "Ten Lithographs (1970)" and Takashi Murakami's "And Then, and then, and then, and then, and then (1999)," are exhibited for the first time.

The two earliest portfolios on vie, Lissizky's "Vicory Over the Sun (1923)" and Man Ray's "Revolving Doors(1926)," demonstrate the refined technical abilities of European print workshops that allowed the activities of painter-printmakers to flourish in the first part of the century.