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Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art

John Simon after John Verelst, Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas, after 1710, mezzotint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Paul Mellon Fund, 2001

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John Hill after William Guy Wall, View from Fishkill Looking to West Point, 1821–1825, from The Hudson River Portfolio, hand-colored aquatint and engraving, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Donald and Nancy deLaski Fund, 2013

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Robert Havell Jr. after John James Audubon, American White Pelican, 1836, from The Birds of America, hand-colored etching and aquatint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. Walter B. James, 1945

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Michele Fanoli after Richard Caton Woodville, Politics in an Oyster-House, 1851, hand-colored lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Estate of William Woodville VIII), 2015

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Frances Flora Palmer, A Midnight Race on the Mississippi, 1860, color lithograph with hand-coloring, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Donald and Nancy deLaski Fund, 2012

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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1879/1880, etching and drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Watson Webb in memory of Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1942

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Mary Cassatt, Woman Bathing, 1890–1891, drypoint and aquatint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1989

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John Marin, Woolworth Building, No. 1, 1913, etching with monotype inking, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Avalon Fund, 1981

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George Bellows, A Stag at Sharkey's, 1917, lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1956

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Louis Lozowick, New York, 1923, lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002

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Mabel Dwight, Queer Fish, 1936, lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008

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Grant Wood, Shrine Quartet, 1939, lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008

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Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1944/1945 (printed 1967), engraving and drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, The William Stamps Farish Fund, 2009

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Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965, screenprint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1996. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1967, screenprint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008

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Jasper Johns, Flags I, 1973, screenprint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, 1994. Published by Jasper Johns and Simca Print Artists, Inc. © Jasper Johns and Simca Print Artists, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986, spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, and drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1996. © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

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Kara Walker, no world, 2010, from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, etching, aquatint, sugarlift aquatint, spitbite aquatint, and drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Donald and Nancy deLaski Fund, 2015

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