Contemporary prints were a major highlight of the Portland Museum of Art’s collecting activity in 2006, and they’ll highlight the results in “New Acquisitions 2006” through Feb. 18.

The annual show this year features paintings, photographs and works on paper by internationally known artists Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Anish Kapoor, Robert Stackhouse, Pat Steir and others entering the collection as gifts. A group of these prints, as well as two drawings by Dale Chihuly, better known for his studio glass pieces, will be on view in the first-floor elevator lobby.

The exhibition continues on the fourth floor, with a selection of works in a variety of media. New purchases include prints by renowned photographers Gertrude Kasebier and Paul Strand, and gifts of differing views of Maine life in the early 1900s by photographers Lewis Hine and Minnie Libby. Also given to the museum were contemporary landscape prints by Jack Ledbetter and Terrell Lester, and early views of Monhegan Island by 19th-century painter Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott. One of Triscott’s watercolors was also purchased for the collection. Other painters associated with Maine are also featured, including Philip Barter, Mark Baum and Lina Burley, among others. Elsewhere in the museum, new acquisitions of paintings by Charles Codman (1800–1842) and John Walker (born 1939) enhance the permanent presentation of 19th-century and contemporary art.