"From Mantenga to Goya: Selections from the Muriel and Philip Berman Gift of European Old Master Prints." February1-March 29, 1986, 1983-1988

In July of 1985, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired over 43,000 European prints from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through an exchange and purchase with funds Muriel and Philip Berman. A year later, Ellen Jacobowitz, Acting Curator of Prints, organized an exhibition of old master prints selected from the recent acquisition. This subseries includes information on the exhibition as well as records regarding the earlier acquisition.