Hayter became so well known as a printmaker that few realized he was also an accomplished painter and draftsman.  Indeed, as this exhibition hopes to demonstrate, Hayter worked in all three media—painting, drawing and printmaking—interchangeably, in styles that reflected the prevalent artistic movement of the day.  In Paris, he worked in what could be describe as an abstract Surrealist mode, but in New York, his linear style (doubtlessly informed by the graphic quality of various printmaking techniques) was perfectly suited to the animated and gestural style of Abstract Expressionism.  In whatever media he chose, Hayter never abandoned a subject matter that originated in Green and Roman myth, be it Narcissus gazing at his own countenance in a reflecting pool, or Ceres, godless of the harvest and growing plants, overseeing her seasonal bounty.  In 1950s, after a decade of working in New York, Hayter return to Paris, where he reopened Atelier 17, which remained in operation until his death in 1988 (whereupon it was named Atelier Contrepoint).