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2025

August 22 - December 20, 2025

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No One Knows All It Takes

No One Knows All It Takes is an exhibition that promotes empathy and connection, recognizing that true well-being requires universal care.

 

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Life Lines

Life Lines invites viewers to engage deeply with art and religion, encouraging self-reflection and discovery.

 

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Capture the Senses: Attraction and Horror in Early Modern Art

Capture the Senses uses works by Early Modern artists to explore how aesthetic pleasure set against terrifying subjects evokes powerful psychological responses.

 

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Installation No. 46 (Rhythmus 24), 2025

The Haggerty Museum of Art presents a new site-specific commissioned work by Chicago-based artist Jan Tichy.

 

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Whirling Tennure

Nohl Fellow Roy Staab created Whirling Tennure for The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024 summer exhibition and will remain in place through November 22, 2025.

June 12 - August 2, 2025

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024

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Hot Days/Hot Nights: Photographs from the Collection

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January 17 – May 24, 2025

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection

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Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink

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Visual Legacies: Photographs by Ellie Lee Weems

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Parallel Play: The Art of Science & the Science of Art

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2020

Toward the Texture of Knowing
January 17 to July 26, 2020

Exploring the Core Curriculum: Individuals and Communities
December 16, 2019 to July 26, 2020

HMA DNA: Collection Highlights
December 16, 2019 to July 26, 2020

2019

Ben Shahn: For the Sake of a Single Verse
August 16 to December 15, 2019

The Ariel Poems
August 16 to December 15, 2019

Word and Image
July 24 – December 2, 2019

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2018
June 7 – August 4, 2019

Ralph Steiner: The City
February 8 – July 21, 2019

Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle
February 8 – May 19, 2019

Sable Elyse Smith: Ordinary Violence
August 17, 2018 – January 27, 2019

Kirsten Leenaars: (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles
August 17, 2018 – January 27, 2019

Scripture as Source: Artists Interpret the Bible
August 17, 2018 – January 27, 2019

The Nohl Fellowship at 15
August 17, 2018 – January 27, 2019

2018

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2017
June 8 – August 5, 2018

A Perfect Thrill: Elsa Ulbricht & The Milwaukee Handicraft Project
June 8 – August 5, 2018

Resistance, Protest, Resilience
February 2 – May 20, 2018

Representing Self: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
February 2 – May 20, 2018

Collection Spotlight: Environmental Health
February 2 – May 20, 2018

Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy
October 6, 2017 – January 14, 2018

The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750-1850
October 6, 2017 – January 14, 2018

Kirsten Leenaars: (Re)Housing the American Dream: A Message From The Future
October 6, 2017 – January 14, 2018

James Rosenquist: F-111 (South, West, North, East), 1974
October 6, 2017 – January 14, 2018

2017

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2016
June 8 – September 17, 2017

Look How Far We've Come: Jeffrey Gibson
February 2 – May 21, 2017

Lakota Voices: Collection Highlights from the Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School
February 2 – May 21, 2017

We Can Make It: The Prints of Corita Kent
February 2 – May 21, 2017

2016

Series on Resurrection in Nature: Gendron Jensen
August 18 – December 23, 2016

(Re)housing the American Dream: Kirsten Leenaars
August 18 – December 23, 2016

Religion and Neo-Medievalism in Rouault’s Miserere
August 18 – December 23, 2016

The Master Index: Jason Salavon
August 18 – December 23, 2016

An Atlas of Water and City of Milwaukee: Watermarks
August 18 – December 23, 2016

Fellowships for Individual Artists 2015: The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund
June 9 – July 31, 2016

HMA DNA: Collection Highlights
June 9 – July 31, 2016

Spotlight Exhibition: Jacob Lawrence
January 21 – May 22, 2016

Joan of Arc: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
January 21 – May 22, 2016

Bijinga: Picturing Women in Japanese Prints curated by Dr. Hilary Snow
January 21 – May 22, 2016

Carrie Schneider: Reading Women
January 21 – May 22, 2016

2015

Marc Chagall: Biblical Narratives in Print
September 17 – December 23, 2015

Adi Nes: Biblical Stories
September 17 – December 23, 2015

What is Hispanic? | ¿Qué es Hispánico?
September 17 – December 23, 2015

Giuseppe Mazzone: Geometry of Faith
September 17 – December 23, 2015

Current Tendencies IV: Topography Transformed
June 18 – August 30, 2015

Out of the Vaults: Keith Haring
June 18 – August 30, 2015

On View(s): Highlights from the permanent collection
June 18 – August 30, 2015

Clear Picture: Looking at Communities from an Art Museum
January 22 – May 31, 2015

Mila Teshaieva: Promising Waters
January 22 – May 31, 2015

States of Uncertainty
January 22 – May 31, 2015

The Body, The Self
January 22 - May 31, 2015

2014

Alfred Leslie: The Killing Cycle...

August 20 – December 23, 2014

Alfred Leslie and Frank O'Hara: The Last Clean Shirt
August 20 – December 23, 2014

Nadav Kander: Yangtze – The Long River
August 20 – December 23, 2014

Scrutiny After the Glimpse
June 4 – August 3, 2014

Thorne Brandt: AGOD
June 4 – August 3, 2014

The Print Room: An Exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation
June 4 – August 3, 2014

Aesthetic Afterlife: An Exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation
June 4 – August 3, 2014

Between Critique and Absorption: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture
January 22 – May 18, 2014

Brian Ulrich: Copia — Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores, 2001–2011
January 22 – May 18, 2014

2013

Current Tendencies III: Artists from Milwaukee
August 21 - December 22, 2013

Re-Seeing the Permanent Collection: The Viewer's Voice
August 21 - December 22, 2013

New Objectivity in German Art: Highlights from the Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection
June 5 - July 28, 2013

Aberrance and Artifice: The Norton Collection
June 5 - July 28, 2013

Jim Dow: American Studies
June 5 - July 28, 2013

Dark Blue: The Water as Protagonist
January 16 - May 19, 2013

Images of the Virgin Mary
January 16 - May 19, 2013

Read Between the Lines: Enrique Chagoya's Codex Prints
January 16 - May 19, 2013

Perimeter: Photographs by Kevin J. Miyazaki
January 16 - May 19, 2013

2012

The Freedom Project Text/Context: An Exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation
August 22 - December 22, 2012

Freedom Of/For/To: Photography from the Permanent Collection
August 22 - December 22, 2012

Thenceforward, and Forever Free
August 22 - December 22, 2012

Selections from the Mary and Michael J. Tatalovich Collection
June 6 - August 5, 2012

NYC July 4, 1981: Photographs by Tom Arndt
June 6 - August 5, 2012

Mark Ruwedel: Dusk
June 6 - August 5, 2012

The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney
January 18 – May 20, 2012

Philip Guston: Inevitable Finality, The Gemini G.E.L. Prints
January 18 – May 20, 2012

Selections from the Mary B. Finnigan Collection
January 18 – May 20, 2012

John Stezaker: Marriage
January 18 – May 20, 2012

2011

Current Tendencies II
August 24 - December 31, 2011

Seeing in Sequence
June 22 - August 7, 2011

Ruth Grotenrath & Schomer Lichtner: Interior/Exterior
June 22 - August 7, 2011

The Truth is Not in the Mirror: Photography and a Constructed Identity
January 19 - May 22, 2011

Hollywood Icons, Local Demons: Ghanaian Popular Paintings by Mark Anthony
January 19 - May 22, 2011

Let There Be Light: Stained Glass and Drawings from the Collection of Oakbrook Esser Studios
August 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011

Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: Paintings by Janet McKenzie
August 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011

The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History
August 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011

2010

Theodore Czebotar: Paintings from the Olympic Peninsula
April 28 - August 15, 2010

A Collections Legacy: Women Donors at the Haggerty 
April 28 - August 15, 2010

Thomas Woodruff: Freak Parade
January 27 - April 18, 2010

Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites
January 27 - April 18, 2010

Stella Johnson: Cameroon Images from Al Sol
January 27 - April 18, 2010

Barbara Morgan: The Montages
January 27 - April 18, 2010

The Northern Masters: Prints by Bol + Durer + Goltius + Saenredam + Van Heemskerck
January 27 - April 18, 2010

Old Master Paintings from the Haggerty
January 27 - April 18, 2010

Persian Visions: Contemporry Photography from Iran
October 14, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Pairings: The Haggerty Celebrates 25 Years
October 14, 2009 – January 17, 2010

2009

Jump Cut Pop
July 22 - October 4, 2009

Whatever is There is a Truth
December 12, 2008 - October 4, 2009

Robert Rauschenberg: The Stoned Moon Series
December 12, 2008 - October 4, 2009

Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin
March 12 – June 14, 2009

stop. look. listen: An Exhibition of Video Works
October 23, 2008 – February 22, 2009

2008

Old Masters from the Haggerty: Re-Seeing the Collection
April 24 – December 7, 2008

Turn the Pages Slowly: Rare books and manuscripts from the Haggerty Collection
August 22 – December 7, 2008

Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969–79
July 24 – September 28, 2008

Roy Lichtenstein Prints: Re-Seeing the Collection
April 24 – August 17, 2008

Portraits of Women: Re-Seeing the Collection
April 24 – July 13, 2008

Caras Vemos, Corazones no Sabemos: Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown, The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration
April 24 – July 13, 2008

Harper's Weekly: Illustrated Themes of the Nineteenth Century
April 3 – April 13, 2008

William Hogarth: British Satirical Prints
February 7 – April 13, 2008

The Grandeur of God: Photographs by Rev. Don Doll, S.J.
January 31 – April 13, 2008

Wifredy Lam in North America
October 11, 2007 - January 21, 2008

2007

Louise Bourgeois: Recent Projects
July 26 – September 30, 2007

Queens and Vagabonds: Paintings by Gina Litherland
July 26 – September 30, 2007

India Poems: The photographs of Milwaukee Artist Waswo X. Waswo
June 28 – September 23, 2007

Celebrating Eschweiler's Architectural Heritage at Marquette University
August 8 – September 23, 2007

Wisconsin Artists Biennial, 2007
April 19 - July 15, 2007

Hokusai Hiroshige and the Utagawa School: Japanese prints from the Haggerty Collection
April 26 - June 17, 2007

Martin Kline: Nature and Culture
February 1 - April 10, 2007

Marquette Then and Now: Images Celebrating 125 Years of Faith and Learning in Action
January 25 - April 1, 2007

Art and Conflict in Central Asia
October 19 2006 - January 21, 2007

Hockey Seen: A Nightmare in Three Periods and Sudden Death
A Tribute to Nelson Goodman
September 28, 2006 - January 14, 2007

2006

Ray Parker: Color into Drawing
June 20 - October 8, 2006

Art Nouveau French Posters: Berthon, Grasset and Mucha
The Milton and Paula Gutglass Collection
June 8 - September 10, 2006

Elger Esser: Landscapes and Postcards
May 4 - July 9, 2006

Railroads and the American Industrial Landscape: Ted Rose Paintings and Photographs
March 9 - May 29, 2006

Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat
January 26 - April 17, 2006

Recent Gifts and Acquisitions
December 15, 2005 - February 26, 2006

For Meyer Schapiro: Portfolio of 12 Works
From the estate of Michael J. Black
October 7, 2005 - January 8, 2006

Kendall Buster High Rise Vessels
October 7, 2005 - January 8, 2006

2005

The Flowering Amazon: Margaret Mee Paintings
From the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew in London
September 8 - December 4. 2005

John Newling: British Conceptual Artist
June 2 - August 28, 2005

Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee
June 16 - July 31, 2005

Visual Poetry: Contemporary Art from Italy
April 7 - July 24, 2005

Eve Sussman: 89 Seconds at Alcazar
February 18 - May 22, 2005

On the Fence: Keith Haring's mural for the Haggerty, 1983
January 27 - March 27, 2005

The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: Drawings and original manuscripts from the Marquette University Collection
October 21 - January 30, 2005

Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002
September 23 - January 9, 2005

2004

Two Brothers: Paintings and sculpture by Reginald and Trenton Baylor
September 9 - October 17, 2004

Color Field Revisited: Paintings from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
July 8 - September 12

Faces of Modern Dance: Barbara Morgan Photographs
June 3 - August15, 2004

Miguel Rio Branco: Beauty, The Beast
April 1 - June 20, 2004

Paula Rego: Jane Eyre lithographs
March 4 - May 23, 2004

The Haggerty Collects: Recent gifts and acquisitions 
December 11 - February 22, 2004

Marc Chagall: The Bible Series
January 22 - March 21, 2004

Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces
October 16, 2003 - January 4, 2004

2003

Peter Sehringer: Contemporary German painting

September 18 - November 30, 2003

Frank Rodel: Prinzip Collage
July 10 - September 28, 2003

Decorative Arts and Tapestries from the Haggerty's Permanent Collection
July 10 - September 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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

1984

A Focus on Images: Sense and Form
November 13 – 16, 1984