Overview: 36 of the 38 drawings by Dürer known to be in America were shown, together with 80 engravings and 127 woodcuts by the artist. Also on view were 10 books with woodcut illustrations. These loans came from 32 public and private collections as well as the Rosenwald collection at the National Gallery. Organized by the National Gallery to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth, this was the largest exhibition of its kind ever held in the United States.

Organization: The exhibition was organized and designed by Gaillard F. Ravenel with Charles W. Talbot, assistant professor at Yale University and former Kress fellow, and Jay A. Levenson, graduate student at New York University, Institute of Fine Arts. A technical section, developed by Richard Field of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, included 50 prints with texts and labels dealing with problems of connoisseurship, involving watermarks, paper restoration, and forgeries.