[2][circular reference] After several name changes, the present title was adopted in 1952 to allow for the inclusion of a full range of hand pulled printmaking techniques.

SAGA also maintains a collector print collection of member work and publishes a periodical journal of writing on printmaking-related topics, SAGAzine.

[2][circular reference] In relation to other artists’ associations of the time, SAGA was modeled more closely to the French impressionist group (Cooperative Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.)

Founding members included Troy Kinney, Eugene Higgins, Fred Reynolds, Paul Roche, and Ernest Roth.

The first international exhibition was organized at the Anderson Galleries in New York in 1922, including works by several major European and American artists such as Mary Cassatt, Ernest Haskell, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Wilhelm Lembrook, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, and John Sloan.