Founded in 1915 as one of the first venues in this country dedicated to the appreciation of prints, The Print Center supports the "dissemination, study, production, and collection of works by printmakers, American and foreign" with an emphasis on promising, emerging artists. In 1942, The Print Center donated its collection of prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art establishing the museum's print department. Exhibitions have featured the work of Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Dox Thrash, Jasper Johns, Ansel Adams, Art Spiegelman, and Jerry Uelsmann.