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on the Office of Mission and Identity web site are part of the collection at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Each was selected for its beauty and significance, and each reflects a different dimension of Marquette University's mission.
Jules Claude Zeigler
French (1804-1856)
L’Imagination
Oil on canvas
24 ¾ x 18 7/8 in.
Museum purchase, 99.10
William J. “Prophet” Blackmon
(American, b. 1921)
This is the Family Tree, 1999
Latex paint on board
20 ¼ x 24 ¾ in.
Gift of Annemarie Sawkins, Ph.D., 2000.7
As an elderly evangelist who has spent much of his adult life as a street preacher, Prophet William J. Blackmon aims to evoke a strong response to his compelling religious paintings. And there can be no doubting the power and appeal of his visual messages: during the summer of 2000, at an exhibition of Blackmon's work, I watched as a young boy first studied one of the paintings, and then, with his brother, broke into a spontaneous jubilant song and improvised a dance in response to the image. Rarely have I experienced such an impromptu but sincere reaction to art.
A lively and commanding visionary self-taught painter, Blackmon was born in 1921 in Albion, Michigan. At the age of eight he foretold the death of a neighbour after hearing her 'death rattle.' But his inclination toward prayer did not become apparent until he enlisted in the army during the Second World War. He served with the 585th Engineers Company from 1943 to 1945, receiving several campaign ribbons and six bronze battle stars. (1) Blackmon eventually moved to Chicago, where he opened a shoeshine stand near the Christian Hope Missionary Baptist Church. He was cured of acute chronic gastritis after the preacher said that he and anyone else in the congregation would be healed by God if they would only have faith in his divine power.
Wilhelm Lamprecht
(German, 1838-1906)
Père Marquette and the Indians, 1889
Oil on canvas
42 ½ x 53 in.
Gift of Rev. Stanislaus L. Lalumiere, S.J., 003
Yvonne Jacquette
American (b. 1934)
Point Loma III, 1997
Monotype with pastel
16 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.
Gift of Dr. Robert and Sharon Yoerg, 98.13.5
Marc Chagall
(French, 1887-1985)
Sampson Destroys the Temple from
The Bible Series, 1957
Hand-colored etching
24 x 18 in.
Gift of Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty, 80.7.64
Rev. Michael Tang
American (b. 1958)
St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1979
Media: Serigraph
10 x 14 in.
Collection of Rev. John Quinn, S.J.
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