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by legendary print collector Lessing J. Rosenwald.

http://www.printcouncil.org/introduction.html

Early members of the group—including Adelyn Breeskin, Harold Joachim , Una Johnson , A. Hyatt Mayor, Elizabeth Mongan , Jakob Rosenberg ,Paul J. Sachs, Carl Schniewind and Carl Zigrosser are now known for their leadership in establishing collections, mounting ground-breaking exhibitions of prints, and publishing critical studies of prints and printmakers.

A group of 41 print experts, known as the Print Council of America, attempted to formulate a standard code when they published What Is an Original Print? in 1961. There were many, however, who argued with the adjective

Initially, these efforts were controversial among some print experts , and even provoked "anger" from another organization, the World Print Council. Over the years, the definition became more "widely accepted".

"Print researchers have access to a very useful source for identifying print catalogues raisonnés, published by the Print Council of America: The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists."

"Many of us still remember the anger that was aroused in 1961 when the Print Council of America issued a statement .. Print Council of America was a well-intentioned organization, sincerely dedicated to the cause of fine prints on an intemational level. It accomplished some very good things in the context of its time, and it promoted some equally bad things in that boisterous and fluid period of the 50s. By the end of the decade it had pretty much outlived its usefulness as the"

The Print Council of America has published many books. One notable example is The Print Council of America Paper Sample Book: A Practical Guide to the Description of Paper. . This book provides a "standardized method of describing paper" that has "proved to be an objective system for describing paper".

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