Permanent Collection

The Haggerty Museum of Art opened in 1984 to house Marquette’s art collection, which was begun in the late nineteenth century. The collection began with the gift of Wilhelm Lamprecht’s 1869 Père Marquette and the Indians, commemorating the life of Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J., (1637-75), the earliest French Jesuit explorer of the Midwest and the university's namesake. A gift of Old Master paintings from Marc B. Rojtman and Lillian Rojtman Berkman in 1959-60 inspired additional gifts.

The collection, which now numbers more than 4,500 works in various mediums, features special collections of Old Masters, paintings, prints and drawings, and modern and contemporary works. Highlights of the collection include Salvador Dalí’s 1949 Madonna at Port Lligat; Marc Chagall’s Bible Series; and Keith Haring’s 1983 construction fence mural, painted before the museum’s opening. Artists represented range from Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer and Giovanni Battista Piranesi to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, Jacob Lawrence, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Rauschenberg.