August 22 - December 22, 2012
History—the study of past human events, words, and creations—is an imprecise science. The authoritative words we read in history books often do not fully correspond with reality. This inconsistency applies not only to the interpretive words written by historians, but also to the original quotes uttered by figures from the past. In this gallery, you encounter a small gathering of objects that are in one way or another linked to the laudable concept of human freedom. Yet their stories are complex and, at times, conflicted. They suggest that understanding the past begins when we consider multiple perspectives and voices—when we replace the idea of "reading history" with the broader concept of "exposing histories."
August 22 - December 22, 2012
The exhibition Freedom Of/For/To is comprised of contemporary photographs from the museum's permanent collection that explore the fluid definition of the word and elicit questions about our collective (mis)understanding of freedom at home and abroad. The photographers represented in the exhibition, including Adam Bartos, Edward Burtynsky, William Clift, Stella Johnson, Miguel Rio Branco, Irina Rozovsky, and Joel Sternfeld, offer a variety of viewpoints that encourage us to consider how we define and protect freedom in a global context.
August 22 - December 22, 2012
Thenceforward, and Forever Free was presented as part of Marquette University’s Freedom Project, a yearlong commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Project explored the many histories and meanings of emancipation and freedom in the United States and beyond. The exhibition featured seven contemporary artists whose work deals with issues of race, gender, privilege, and identity, and more broadly conveys interpretations of the notion of freedom. Artists in Thenceforward were: Laylah Ali, Willie Birch, Michael Ray Charles, Gary Simmons, Elisabeth Subrin, Mark Wagner, and Kara Walker. The exhibition included works in diverse media, from Wagner’s 17-foot-tall collage made from 1,121 dollar bills to Simmons’s site-specific chalk drawing installation to Subrin’s two-channel, HD video. Paintings by Charles and Birch, drawings by Ali, and prints by Walker were also featured. Essayists for the exhibition catalogue are Dr. A. Kristen Foster, associate professor, Department of History, Marquette University, and Ms. Kali Murray, assistant professor, Marquette University Law School.
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June 6 - August 5, 2012
Selections From the Mary and Michael J. Tatalovich Collection museum guide
June 6 - August 5, 2012
June 6 - August 5, 2012
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.
January 18 – May 20, 2012
January 18 – May 20, 2012
January 18 – May 20, 2012
August 24 - December 31, 2011
Current Tendencies II catalogue
June 22 - August 7, 2011
June 22 - August 7, 2011
January 19 - May 22, 2011
The Truth is Not in the Mirror catalogue
January 19 - May 22, 2011
Ghanaian master artist Mark Anthony (born c.1943) is acclaimed for his signage-inspired paintings which attract audiences to itinerant theatrical performances or “concert parties” by local musicians and actors. Curated by Michelle Gilbert, visiting associate professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, this provocative exhibit of contemporary African Art features Anthony’s colorful, bold eight foot square paintings on wood.
Aug. 25, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
Aug. 25, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
Aug. 25, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
Aug. 25, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
April 28 - Aug. 15, 2010
During annual trips the Racine native painted and filled sketchbooks of the largely unexplored Olympic peninsula. These studies later inspired larger paintings.
April 28 - Aug. 15, 2010
Jan. 27 - Apr. 18, 2010
An ambitious and dazzling parade of images that celebrates beauty in aberrance.
Jan. 27 - Apr. 18, 2010
Jan. 27 - Apr. 18, 2010
Photographs that capture the Gbaya and Fulbe cultures in Cameroon.
Jan. 27 - Apr. 18, 2010
A focused look at Barbara Morgan’s most innovative black and white photographs.
Jan. 27 - Apr. 18, 2010
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century prints that focus on biblical scenes
Jan. 27 - Apr. 18, 2010
Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the permanent collection.
Contemporary Photography from Iran
Oct. 14, 2009 – Jan. 17, 2010
More than 60 works by 20 of Iran’s most celebrated photographers
The Haggerty Celebrates 25 Years
Oct. 14, 2009 – Jan. 17, 2010
An exhibition of works selected from the Permanent Collection
July 22 - October 4, 2009
More than 50 works from the mid-1960s to 2008 inspired by the Pop Art movement
Dec. 12, 2008 - Oct. 4, 2009
Robert Rauschenberg: The Stoned Moon Series
Jennifer Angus, Peter Bardy, Anne Kingsbury, Colin Matthes, Shana McCaw, Brent Budsberg, T.L. Solien, Sonja Thomsen, George Williams Jr., Xiaohong Zhang
March 12 – June 14, 2009
Current Tendencies exhibition guide
Oct. 23, 2008 – Feb. 22, 2009
stop.look.listen: exhibition guide
April 24 – Dec. 7, 2008
Rare books and manuscripts from the Haggerty Collection
Aug. 22 – Dec. 7, 2008
The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969–79
July 24 – Sept. 28, 2008
April 24 – Aug. 17, 2008
April 24 – July 13, 2008
Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown,
The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration
April 24 – July 13, 2008
Illustrated Themes of the Nineteenth Century
April 3 – April 13, 2008
Feb. 7 – April 13, 2008
William Hogarth exhibition guide
Photographs by Rev. Don Doll, S.J.
Jan. 31 – April 13, 2008
Oct. 11, 2007 - Jan. 21, 2008
Wifredo Lam in North America exhibition guide
July 26 – Sept. 30, 2007
Louise Bourgeois, Recent Projects exhibition guide
Paintings by Gina Litherland
July 26 – Sept. 30, 2007
Queens and Vagabonds exhibition guide
The photographs of Milwaukee Artist Waswo X. Waswo
June 28 – Sept. 23, 2007
at Marquette University
Aug. 8 – Sept. 23, 2007
April 19 - July 15, 2007
Wisconsin Artists Biennial, 2007 exhibition guide
Japanese prints from the Haggerty Collection
April 26 - June 17, 2007
Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Utagawa School exhibition guide
February 1 - April 10, 2007
Martin Kline, Nature and Culture exhibition guide
Images Celebrating 125 Years of Faith and Learning in Action
Jan. 25 - April 1, 2007
Marquette Then and Now exhibition guide
Oct. 19 2006 - Jan. 21, 2007
A Nightmare in Three Periods and Sudden Death
A Tribute to Nelson Goodman
Sept. 28, 2006 - Jan. 14, 2007
June 20 - Oct. 8, 2006
Ray Parker: Color into Drawing exhibition guide
Berthon, Grasset and Mucha
The Milton and Paula Gutglass Collection
June 8 - Sept. 10, 2006
Art Nouveau French Posters exhibition guide
May 4 - July 9, 2006
Elger Esser: Landscapes and Postcards exhibition guide
Ted Rose paintings and photographs
March 9 - May 29, 2006
Jan. 26 - April 17, 2006
Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat exhibition guide
Dec. 15, 2005 - February 26, 2006
From the estate of Michael J. Black
Oct. 7, 2005 - Jan. 8, 2006
Oct. 7, 2005 - Jan. 8, 2006
Kendall Buster High Rise Vessels exhibition guide
From the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew in London
Sept. 8 - Dec. 4. 2005
British conceptual artist
June 2 - Aug. 28, 2005
The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee
June 16 - July 31, 2005
April 7 - July 24, 2005
Visual Poetry: Contemporary Art from Italy exhibition guide
February 18 - May 22, 2005
Eve Sussman: 89 Seconds at Alcazar exhibition guide
Keith Haring's mural for the Haggerty, 1983
Jan. 27 - March 27, 2005
Drawings and original manuscripts from the Marquette University Collection
Oct. 21 - Jan. 30, 2005
Sept. 23 - Jan. 9, 2005
Paintings and sculpture by Reginald and Trenton Baylor
Sept. 9 - Oct. 17, 2004
Paintings from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
July 8 - Sept. 12
Color Field Revisited exhibition guide
Barbara Morgan photographs
June 3 - Aug.15, 2004
Faces of Modern Dance exhibition guide
Beauty, The Beast
April 1 - June 20, 2004
Jane Eyre lithographs
March 4 - May 23, 2004
Recent gifts and acquisitions
Dec. 11 - February 22, 2004
The Bible Series
Jan. 22 - March 21, 2004
Projects for Public Spaces
Oct. 16, 2003 - Jan. 4, 2004
Contemporary German painting
Sept. 18 - November 30, 2003
Prinzip Collage
July 10 - Sept. 28, 2003
July 10 - Sept. 28, 2003
Recent Gifts from the Fishman Collection
July 1- September 28, 2003
Italy: A Good Walk
Photographs by Murray Weiss
May 29 - September 7, 2003
Gao Xingjian
Ink Paintings 1983-1993
April 10- June 29, 2003
Honoré Daumier
Political Caricaturist of the Nineteenth Century
February 13 - May 18, 2003
Watts: Art & Social Change in Los Angeles, 1965-2002
January 23 - March 30, 2003
Virginia Lee Burton
Children's Book Illustrator, Author and Designer
October 11 - February 2, 2003
Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964
September 19 - December 29, 2002
Home and Away
Contemporary Irish Art
June 6 - September 29, 2002
Andy Warhol and Friends
American Art of the 60s and 70s
June 27 - September 8, 2002
From Tiffany to Chihuly
Twentieth-Century Art Glass
Collection of Mrs. Ray Smith, Jr.
June 27 - September 8, 2002
German and Austrian Art of the 1920s and 1930s
The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection
April 11 - June 16, 2002
Man Ray on Paper
April 1 - May 26, 2002
Faces and Figures
Contemporary Scandinavian Photography
January 24 - March 31, 2002
Fifty Years of Painting by Guido Brink
January 10 - March 17, 2002
The Search for a Personal Vision in Broadcast Television: Fred Barzyk
September 7- January 13, 2002
William Wegman: Early Works
October 11 - January 1, 2002
George Weymouth: Landscapes and Portraits of Brandywine
July 19 - September 30, 2001
At the Tsar's Table
Russian Imperial Porcelain from the Raymond F. Piper Collection
June 1 - August 19, 2001
Heimo Wallner: In Limbo
Drawings in Space
April 4 - July 8, 2001
Motherwell, Nevelson and Frankenthaler:
Gifts from the Lillian Rojtman Berkman Collection
February 22 - May 20, 2001
Italian Renaissance Masters
January 25 - May 20, 2001
Four Milwaukee Photographers
January 12 - March 11, 2001
Contemporary Art from the Norton Family Collection
November 12, 2000 - February 11, 2001
The Haggerty Collects: Recent Gifts
December 7, 2000 - February 11, 2001
listening: Imaginary Landscapes by Peter Frie
October 12 - December 31, 2000
Imagination to Image
Photographs from the Museum of Science and Industry
September 28 - December 3, 2000
The Photographs of Barbara Morgan
September 28 - October 22, 2000
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking
Smith Andersen Editions
July 13 - October 1, 2000
Timeless Visions
Contemporary Art of India from the Herwitz Collection
June 22 - September 17, 2000
Öyvind Fahlström
The Complete Graphics and Multiples
May 12 - July 1, 2000
Dalí and the Ballet
Set and Costumes for The Three-Cornered Hat
February 24 - June 11, 2000
Dalí: The Zodiac
February 24 - June 11, 2000
Georges Rouault: The Miserere Series
March 16 - April 30, 2000
Jacob Berenstein: Contemporary Sculpture from Israel
December 23, 1999 - March 5, 2000
Radiant Inner Light: Multi-media Performance Installation
Yehuda Yannay and Stephen Pevnick
January 13 - February 6, 2000
Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Inc.
1999 Wisconsin Artists Biennial
November 7, 1999 - January 2, 2000
Leiko Ikemura: Sculpture and Paintings
October 7- December 12, 1999
Signs of Inspiration: The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon
September 10 - October 24, 1999
Carole Hodgson: Sculpture and Works on Paper
July 15 - September 19, 1999
Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: 1945-1998
June 4 - August 29, 1999
Surrealist Images
April 21 - July 25, 1999
Kenn Kwint: Purely Painting
May 14 - July 4, 1999
Jules Claude Ziegler: The Passion of Christ
March 19 - May 23, 1999
The Cult of Ruins: Visions of Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century
March 24 - May 2, 1999
Children in Art: A Century of Change
February 12 - May 23, 1999
Oscar Wilde: The Apostle of Beauty
January 28 - April 18, 1999
Recent Acquisitions
December 3, 1998 - March 7, 1999
Feng Mengbo: Video Games
November 20, 1998 - January 31, 1999
In the Lion's Den:
The Bible Images of Marc Chagall
September 18 - November 22, 1998
A Collector's View:
Photographs from the Sondra Gilman Collection
September 11 - November 8, 1998
Witness to Our Century:
An Artistic Biography of Fritz Eichenberg
July 24 - August 30, 1998
Joseph Friebert at Ninety
July 17 - August 30, 1998
Ralph Steiner: In Pursuit of Clouds
May 15 - July 5, 1998
A Passion for Porcelain:
Three Centuries of Meissen Floral Painting
May 8 - August 30, 1998
Jan Fabre: Passage
February 27 - April 26, 1998
Territory: Paintings by Olav Christopher Jenssen
February 27 - April 26, 1998
From Warhol to Bartlett
Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Michael J. and Mary Tatalovich
December 12, 1997 - February 15, 1998
Matta: Surrealism and Beyond
September 19 - November 30, 1997
Rudolf Schlichter and Friends
German Art between the Wars
June 26 - September 7, 1997
Rudolf Koppitz
Viennese "Master of the Camera"
June 26 - August 31, 1997
Gary Schneider: Recent Photographs
April 18 - June 1, 1997
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection
April 17 - June 1, 1997
Sarah Bachrodt: Recent Paintings
February 7 - April 6, 1997
DanceFindings
Robert Ellis Dunn Videodance Installation
January 30 - March 30, 1997
Masterpieces from The Rojtman Foundation Collection
November 7, 1996 - April 6, 1997
Recent Gifts
November 7, 1996 - January 26, 1997
Adolph Rosenblatt: Milwaukee in Sculpture
October 3, 1996 - January 12, 1997
Joan of Arc in 19th- and 20th-Century Art
September 26 - December 8, 1996
Smoggy Abstraction: Recent Los Angeles Painting
August 9 - October 27, 1996
Thom Shaw: The Malcolm X Paradox
August 8 - October 27, 1996
Human Nature: Solar Photograms by Martha Madigan
July 11 - September 22, 1996
Russian Art of the Nineteenth Century:
Icons and Easter Eggs
April 19 - July 28, 1996
Heroic Images from Myth and History
April 5 - June 30, 1996
Esteban Vicente Collages 1950-1994
February 9 - March 31, 1996
Cista: Julius Bissier's Painted Vessels
January 26 - March 24, 1996
Rodin: Sculpture from the B. Gerald Cantor Collection
March 17 - June 11, 1995
Ian McKeever: Paintings and Drawings (Contemporary British Painting)
December 8, 1994 – February 19, 1995
Paul Garrin: Yuppie Ghetto with Watchdog
November 17, 1994 – February 19, 1995
Restless Pauses: The Haggerty Museum of Art Celebrates Ten Years
September 16 – November 13, 1994
The Art of Studio Glass: Selections from the International Glass Collection of Janet and Marvin Fishman
June 30 – August 14, 1994
Crosscurrents: African, Asian and Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection
June 30 – August 14, 1994
Beethoven in Vienna: The Second Style Period (1803 – 1812)
April 14 – June 5, 1994
Wisconsin Artists: A Celebration of Jewish Presence
April 7 – June 12, 1994
The City From Within: A Perspective on African-American Life in Milwaukee
February 17 – April 2, 1994
Kings and Queens and Elegant Tureens: 18th and 19th Century Decorative Arts, Selections from the Campbell Museum Collection
February 4 – March 20, 1994
Images of Penance, Images of Mercy: Southwestern Santos in the Late 19th Century
November 21, 1993 – January 16, 1994
Politics of Nature: Art, Ideology, and Interpretations of Nature in European Prints and Drawings, 1650 – 1850
September 23 – November 7, 1993
Songs of My People
September 17 – November 7, 1993
The Art of Design 2: An Exhibition of American Design
June 25 – September 6, 1993
Dolls in Contemporary Art: Metaphors of Personal Identity
March 18 – June 13, 1993
The Black Family
February 4 – April 4, 1993
Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674): A Painter of the Night
December 4, 1992 – February 28, 1993
Rufino Tamayo: Poetic Mysticism Prints 1974 - 1990
September 24 – November 8, 1992
Franta: Contemporary Art in Southern France
August 20 – November 15, 1992
Prairie Ring: Environmental Site Sculpture by Roy Staab
July 9 – September 13, 1992
Francesco Spicuzza: Wisconsin Impressionist
May 7 – June 28, 1992
Facing the Future: Video Installation by Vale Export
April 28 – May 8, 1992
Contemporary Folk Art from the Balsley Collection
April 15 – August 2, 1992
Rouault: Miserere
February 20 – April 26, 1992
Art and the Law: Sixteenth Annual Exhibition
January 24 – March 29, 1992
Collaborative Photography by Patrick Nagatani and Andree Tracey
December 5, 1991 – February 9, 1992
Five Centuries of Italian Painting from the Collection of the Sarah Blaffer Foundation
September 19 – December 29, 1991
Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, Wisconsin Artists Biennial Exhibition
June 27 – August 31, 1991
Twentieth Century Masters of American Glass
June 11 – November 15, 1991
Gerhard Hoehme: Mixed Media Paintings and Installations, 1960-1988
April 11 – June 9, 1991
Children in Action: Color Photography by William L. Tolan
March 21 – June 15, 1991
Jesuit Art in North American Collections
March 7 – June 16, 1991
Richard Lippold Sculpture: A Retrospective 1950 - 1988
November 30, 1990 – February 17, 1991
A Focus on Recent Gifts
October 4 – November 4, 1990
Contemporary Russian Art: Views from Without and Within, Komar and Melamid, and Maxim Kantor
September 13 – November 11, 1990
Karl Priebe: A Look at African-Americans
July 26 – September 23, 1990
Birds in Art
July 12 – August 30, 1990
Contemporary British Photography: Calum Colvin
April 19 – July 8, 1990
Images of Death in Contemporary Art
March 22 – June 3, 1990
Old Master Prints
January 18 – March 31, 1990
Ivory in Art: A Moral Dilemma
December 7, 1989 – March 4, 1990
Man Ray in America
October 20 – December 31, 1989
Marc Chagall: The Bible Series
October 5 – December 31, 1989
African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tribbs Collection
August 12 – September 24, 1989
Lucia Stern: A Re-evaluation
July 20 – October 8, 1989
The New British Painting
April 28 – July 2, 1989
Along the Nile to Nubia: 19th Century prints by David Roberts from the Collection of Peter M. Wege
February 16 – April 16, 1989
The Rise and Fall of Taste: An Installation by David Giese
February 16 – March 26, 1989
Old Master Drawings from the 16th to 19th Century
December 8, 1988 – February 5, 1989
Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Photographs
September 29 – November 27, 1988
Fred Berman: Assemblages and Photographs
July 28 – September 11, 1988
Photography on the Edge
March 24 – June 8, 1988
Georges Rouault's Miserere
March 10 – May 22, 1988
Selected Acquisitions 1985-1987
January 21 – March 13, 1988
The Spanish Forger
December 10, 1987 – February 28, 1988
Italian Renaissance Art from the Piero Corsini Gallery, New York
October 22 – December 31, 1987
Ansel Adams: Photographs
October 8 – November 29, 1987
Treasures of Hungary: Gold and Silver from the 9th to the 19th Century
August 13 – October 11, 1987
J.R.R. Tolkien: Drawings, Watercolors and Manuscripts from the Hobbit
June 11 – September 30, 1987
Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s: A City of Decadence, Revolt, and Chaos: Watercolors and Drawings of Bruno Voight
June 11 – August 2, 1987
Frank Kleinholz: The Art of Caring, An Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper
April 2 – June 21, 1987
Joe Jones and J.B. Turnbull: Visions of the Midwest in the 1930s
January 22 – March 22, 1987
The Sinsky Collection of Russian Icons
December 3, 1986 – March 15, 1987
Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art
October 16 – December 28, 1986
Patrick Sellitto: Cyanotypes
October 10 – November 16, 1986
Hope and Fear: Hope Sandrow Silver Prints
August 8 – September 28, 1986
A Golden Age of Painting: Dutch, Flemish, German Paintings from the Sarah Blaffer Collection
July 10 – September 28, 1986
Figure and Landscape: Paintings and Drawings by Cornelia Foss
April 16 – June 1, 1986
John Heartfield: Photomontages of the Nazi Period
April 16 – June 1, 1986
The Holograms of Rudie Berkhout
February 20 – March 30, 1986
American Antique and Amish Quilts
February 6 – March 15, 1986
Inaugural Year Gifts 1984-85: An Exhibition of Selected Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture and Decorative Arts
November 15, 1985 – January 15, 1986
Art Educator as Artist: Wisconsin Art Education Association Membership Exhibition
August 15 – October 27, 1985
Breaking the Plane: Stuart Speiser Collection II
August 15 – October 27, 1985
The Badlands: The Photographs of J.P. Atterberry
June 7 – July 15, 1985
The Art of Hockey: Six Drawings and Other Works by Katharine Sturgis
March 21 – May 19, 1985
A Focus on Images: Sense and Form
November 13 – 16, 1984
The Haggerty Museum of Art produces a guide for most exhibitions. These publications offer additional information on the artists, periods and themes of an exhibition through essays by national and international scholars and museum staff. The catalogs include illustrations, artist biographies, exhibition histories, bibliographies and a list of works in each exhibition. Guides are available for purchase at the museum or by e-mailing us.