Philip Guston
Inevitable Finality, The Gemini G.E.L Prints

January 18 – May 20, 2012

The exhibition Philip Guston Inevitable Finality, The Gemini G.E.L. Prints features the 25 lithographs made in the last two years of the artist’s life. Printed at the Gemini G.E.L. studio in Los Angeles between 1980 and 1983, this series of lithographs has rarely been exhibited together. The Haggerty exhibition also marks the first time, since their production, that all 25 prints will be shown at a university museum. As a collection, they reveal Guston’s lifelong passion for drawing, and the importance he placed on the immediacy inherent in this mode of inquiry.

John Stezaker
Marriage

January 18 – May 20, 2012

John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings.

The Europeans
Photographs by Tina Barney

January 18 – May 20, 2012

The Europeans is an intimate look at Europe’s grand families through the eyes of American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). In a series of large, lush and colorful portraits, Barney presents a side of the European gentry, initially unfamiliar to her (She grew up in New York and Rhode Island and began photographing friends and family as an artist in 1975). With this project, Barney embarked on her own modern version of the Grand Tour, or traditional trip around Europe, capturing those who would earlier have commissioned painted family portraits.

Selections from the Mary B. Finnigan Collection

January 18 – May 20, 2012

The Haggerty will present select works from the permanent collection purchased with funds provided by the Mary B. Finnigan Art Endowment Fund. A longtime supporter and Friend of the Haggerty Museum of Art board member, in 1991 Mary Finnigan gave a major gift to the museum to establish the art endowment fund, enabling the museum to collect significant 20th-Century American and European art works. Over the past twenty years, the Finnigan fund has brought 13 art gifts to the Haggerty collection. This mezzanine gallery exhibition will include paintings by Lovis Corinth, Jean Fautrier, Wifredo Lam, and Jacob Lawrence, among others.

June 6 – August 5, 2012

Selections from the Mary and Michael Tatalovich Collection

NYC July 4th 1981
Photographs by Tom Arndt

August 22 – December 22, 2012

Thenceforward, and Forever Free

Current Tendencies II
Artists from Milwaukee

August 24 - December 31, 2011

Current Tendencies II featured 10 Milwaukee artists working in a variety of media including: photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, video and sculpture.  The exhibition presented many all-new, never-before-seen works, created specifically for the Haggerty Museum.  Each artist was paired with a Marquette professor who wrote a reflection of the artist’s work based on the professor’s area of expertise, creating dialogue between artist and scholar and connecting philosophy, theology, political science, communications, etc., to the works in the exhibition.

More past exhibitions

• A list of past exhibitions and exhibition catalogues