Selections from the Mary and Michael J. Tatalovich Collection

June 6 - August 5, 2012

Significant gifts by dedicated patrons have often been the building blocks of museum collections. The decision by Michael and Mary in 2010 to gift the entirety of their growing collection of 90 large-scale American prints significantly enriched the Haggerty Museum of Art's focus of works on paper as well as strengthened the holdings of postwar images by important American artists who took advantage of the print renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. Their first gift in 1997 of the print Leg by Jasper Johns marked the beginning of a partnership that has included an exhibition of works from their collection in the museum, From Warhol to Bartlett in 1998, and subsequent gifts and loans to augment other projects undertaken by the museum. This postwar collection includes many exemplary works by seminal Pop and Minimal artists, alongside exciting works by newer artists. Because the collection has grown by 50 percent since the 1998 exhibition, this effort marks the first time many works will be seen publicly..

NYC July 4, 1981
Photographs by Tom Arndt

June 6 - August 5, 2012

On the night of July 4, 1981, photographer Tom Arndt came upon what he referred to as a "wall of sound" as he entered New York City's Little Italy and Chinatown. He saw garbage cans doused in gasoline, set aflame, and exploding with fireworks as people ran through the rain-soaked streets. The series of photographs Arndt took capture the intensity of the night's celebration of Independence Day, while simultaneously emitting a strange disconnect from the specifics of time and place. The photographs have an uneasy resemblance to contemporary images of urban warfare and ask the viewer to reconcile the duality of celebrating freedom versus fighting for freedom.

Mark Ruwedel
Dusk

June 6 - August 5, 2012

The exhibition Mark Ruwedel Dusk presents eight black and white images that capture the degraded, fringe spaces of the high desert in Southern California. The photographs describe a landscape of simultaneous development and decay. Ruwedel chooses to photograph those houses that seem to be either once inhabited or incomplete constructions. Yet most of these houses occupy a middle zone, where the viewer is perplexed in wondering if they are coming or going, generative or degenerative. Photographed at dusk, the images record an atmosphere that is melancholic and sublime.

August 22 – December 22, 2012

Thenceforward, and Forever Free

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

In commemoration the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will present the exhibition Thenceforward, and Forever Free from August 22-December 22, 2012. The exhibition will feature seven contemporary artists whose work deals with issues of race, gender, justice and freedom. Artists in the exhibition include: Laylah Ali, Willie Birch, Michael Ray Charles, Gary Simmons, Elisabeth Subrin, Mark Wagner and Kara Walker. The exhibition is being held in conjunction with a number of initiatives by various Marquette departments centered on the theme of freedom.

January 16 – May 19, 2013

Images of the Virgin Mary

Images of the Virgin Mary is an exhibition of more than 35 international works of art from the late fourteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century. Organized chronologically based on the life of the Virgin, this exhibition features five major Marian subjects: the Annunciation, Nativity, Flight into Egypt, Pietà, and Assumption and Coronation. These themes, along with other depictions of the Madonna and Child, are showcased in Old Master paintings, important prints, and statues of Mary.

Blue Water

The photographers included in the exhibition Blue Water utilize water as an active element, making pictures that are, at their core, psychological engagements. Water is often perceived as a restorative element, an essential means to health and happiness. Yet, at the same time, it is a force formidable for its potential to threaten life.

June 5 – August 4, 2013

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.

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 ownmodern 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 presents 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.

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.

More past exhibitions

• A list of past exhibitions and exhibition catalogues