Thanks to generous donors, the Picker's print collection has developed markedly in the last two years. As the first of several exhibitions to chart that progress, this show features historical and contemporary prints on the subject of war, a painfully familiar topic of late.

Some artists included here have lived through the violence they represent. Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) etched his celebrated series The Miseries and Misfortunes of War in the midst of the Thirty Years War. Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) used sketches he made during his service in World War I as the starting point for his War portfolio. Jorge Tacla (Chilean/American, born 1958) devises graphic images of suffering and destruction informed by his childhood experience of Augusto Pinochet's brutal coup and subsequent dictatorship. Other artists reclaim imagery from past wars and adapt it to new purposes. Both Kara Walker (American, born 1969) and Fred Wilson (American, born 1954) manipulate prints from the American Civil War (1861-1865) to consider issues of race, gender and identity in contemporary society.

This exhibition complements the exhibitions Occupation: Benjamin Busch, Photographs from Iraq in the Clifford Art Gallery, Little Hall, and The Art in War. Benjamin Busch Photographs from Iraq in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Alumni Hall, both on view through October 21. The gallery handout for the Callot prints was prepared by Jeff Sheng, Colgate Class of '07.