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5 unusual facts about Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art


Curtis L. Carter

His greatest accomplishment at Marquette was the creation of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art.

Judith Fox

Fox's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), the Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP), The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida.

Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art

The construction of the museum was made possible by a donation from alumnus and co-founder of Texas Instruments, Inc., Patrick E. Haggerty, and his wife, Beatrice, for whom the museum is named.

The museum opened in 1984 following a university collaborative effort that was chaired by professor Curtis L. Carter.

Patrick E. Haggerty

Haggerty and his wife left part of their estate to found a museum of art at his alma mater which lead to the founding of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art.



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