In 1932, Mary Andrews Ladd donated 750 Japanese woodblock prints to the Portland Art Museum. Since then, the collection has grown to more than 2,400 works.

The museum taps into this collection for its newest exhibit, “The Artists Touch, The Craftsman’s Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum.” Currently on display, the exhibit runs through Jan. 22 in Portland.

Spanning from the late 17th century to the present day, the exhibit features approximately 200 of the “most historically important and visually compelling Japanese prints in the collection,” according to a news release. Highlights include works by Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, iconic masters in the history of Japanese printmaking.

“The Artists Touch, The Craftsman’s Hand” is divided into 10 themes including “The Origins of Single-Sheet Prints,” “Kabuki in Print,” “Urban Pleasures and the Joys of Travel,” “History and Myth” and “Two Views of Tokyo.”

The exhibit and its corresponding, fully illustrated exhibition catalogue were developed by the museum’s Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art, Maribeth Graybill. In the Portland Art Museum’s fall magazine, she wrote, “we were captivated by the visual and material qualities of each work — the thickness of the paper, the nuances of color, the crispness of the carved line. This exhibition allows Museum audiences to share in this pleasure as never before.”

General admission to the museum is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors (ages 55 and older) and college students (with student identification) and free for children (ages 17 and younger).

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.portlandartmuseum.org or contact 503-226-2811.