GLENS FALLS, NY.- This fall, The Hyde Collection presents a survey of iconic prints created during an unprecedented 50-year period of growth and innovation in American printmaking. Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints will be on view in the Charles R. Wood Gallery from October 11 through January 10, 2016.

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the Regionalists and urban Realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the Pop explosion of screen prints in the 1960s, and the precision of Photorealism in the 1970s, printmaking captured the imagination of countless American artists.

“This exhibition offers our visitors and local community the opportunity to discover an exciting and critically important period in the history of American printmaking,” said Erin Coe, Director of The Hyde Collection. “The artwork is visually diverse, representing a broad range of artists and approaches to the printed image while demonstrating how printmaking emerged as the media of choice for some of the most significant artists of the twentieth century.”

Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Thomas Hart Benton, Dorothy Dehner, Richard Estes, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, Anne Ryan, and Andy Warhol are just a few of the artists represented in this exhibition, which features 51 prints.

Infusing art and technology, printmaking between 1930 and 1980 incorporated the artist’s vision with the technical capabilities of color screenprinting and color lithography, eliciting new and unique perspectives. The popularity of prints grew in tandem with innovations in the printmaking process itself. Especially significant are the contributions of women artists to printmaking, as well as the impact of African American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during this period, and the number of painters and sculptors who took up printmaking, this exhibition makes abundantly clear the egalitarian nature of the print.

The exhibition, drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection, which houses more than 12,500 prints, is on a national tour. "We are very happy that The Hyde Collection is presenting another exhibition from our deep holdings of graphic art,” noted Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries. “Pulled, Pressed and Screened is a history lesson in terms of how American artists adopted print media to create powerful visual statements.”