NEW YORK, NY.- Making the scene at the huge four-day IFPDA Print Fair that kicks off on Thursday, November 6 will be scores of American and international curators, representing 50 of the world's leading museums. 90 expert art dealers from the across the country and around the planet will be showing off their most masterful printed artworks at the bustling Print Fair, which takes place in New York City's Park Avenue Armory.

"Every major museum curator reserves a slot in their appointment book for the Print Fair," says Michele Senecal, executive director of the IFPDA. "Curators appreciate the Fair's power to draw the best material from the world's elite dealers for one weekend in November."

"My heart nearly skips a beat when I walk into the Print Fair," says Lyle Williams, curator of prints and drawings at San Antonio's McNay Art Museum. "I'm so excited by the thought of what great things I'm going to see."

Adds Shelley Langdale, associate curator of prints and drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: "The most thrilling aspect of the Print Fair is to see so many dealers efficiently in a single venue and to know that they have brought so many outstanding prints."

For more than 20 years, the Print Fair has been the destination for curators seeking the best prints to enrich their collections, from classic works by old masters to prints to the hot-off-the-press contemporary prints by newcomers, from Japanese woodcuts to exquisite etchings.

"I have attended the Print Fair for years now, since the beginning of my career as a graphic arts curator," says Marilyn Symmes, curator at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. "The fair has always been a highlight event that I would not miss. There are always wonderful discoveries, and I love seeing new prints I had not seen before."

Says Jane Glaubinger of the Cleveland Museum of Art: "The best thing about the fair is that the 100 best print dealers in the U.S. and Europe are in one wonderful space and that many of them, especially the old master print dealers, save their very best material for this not-to-be-missed event. It is a great shopping opportunity, and I always find some treasures to enhance the museum's print collection."

Here are the museums and cultural organizations that are dispatching curators and representatives to the Print Fair:

Academy Art Museum; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute; Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Bard College; British Museum; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Bucknell University; Chazen Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cooper Hewitt; Smithsonian Design Museum; Davis Museum; Dayton Art Institute; Denver Art Museum; El Museo Del Barrio; The Fogg Art Museum; Georgia Museum of Art; Getty Research Institute; Guild Hall Museum; Harvard Art Museums; Heckscher Museum of Art; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; High Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden; Hispanic Society of America; Hood Museum of Art; Huntington Library Art Collections; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Art; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum; Japan Society; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; The J. Paul Getty Museum; La Salle University Art Museum; Library of Congress; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; McNay Art Museum; Mass MoCA; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Montclair Art Museum; Morgan Library & Museum; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Musée du Louvre; Musée du Quebec; Musée Jenisch; Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of the City of New York; Nassau County Museum of Art; Nasher Museum of Art; National Academy Museum; National Gallery of Canada; National Museum of American History; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; New Britain Museum of American Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Neue Galerie; New York Public Library; Peabody Essex Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Phillips Collection; Portland Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Rhode Island Museum of Art; Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; San Antonio Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Skowhegan School; Smith College Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; St. Louis Mercantile Library at UMSL; Tate Britain; Toledo Museum of Art; UBS Art Gallery; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum; Walker Art Center; Whitney Museum of American Art; Wichita Art Museum; The Wolfsonian-FIU; Williams College Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum and Yale Center For British Art.