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FACES OF MODERN DANCE BARBARA MORGAN PHOTOGRAPHS May 28 - August 15, 2004 Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Organized by the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University © 2004 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All rights reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the author and publisher. Photography by Barbara Morgan, © 2004 Barbara and Willard Morgan Archives International Standard Book Number: 0-945366-17-5 Catalogue editor: Annemarie Sawkins Catalogue design and layout: Jerome Fortier Catalogue printed by Special Editions, Hartland, Wisconsin Cover Image: Haggerty Museum of Art Staff Curtis L. Carter, Director Lee Coppernoll, Assistant Director Annemarie Sawkins, Associate Curator Lynne Shumow, Curator of Education Jerome Fortier, Assistant Curator James Kieselburg, II, Registrar Andrew Nordin, Head Preparator , Assistant Preparator Mary Wagner, Administrative Assistant Jason Pilmaier, Communications Assistant Clayton Montez, Chief Security Officer 2 FACES OF MODERN DANCE BARBARA MORGAN PHOTOGRAPHS 3 Barbara Morgan Self, snapshot Gelatin Silver Print 4 x 6 in. 4 Artist’s Biography 1900 1962 Born Barbara Brooks Johnson on July 8 in Has retrospective photographic exhibition at Buffalo, Kansas. Same year family moved to West Arizona State University, Tempe and University of Coast. Grew up on peach ranch in Southern California, Berkeley. California. 1967 1923 Death of Willard J. Morgan Graduated from University of California at Los 1968-88 Angeles (UCLA), with a major in art. Prepared major exhibitions and delivered numer- 1923-24 ous lectures and seminars. Taught art at San Fernando High School, San 1970 Fernando, California Elected fellow of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1925 Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, Joined art faculty UCLA. Married Willard D. Washington, DC. Morgan. 1975 1925-30 Received Grant from the National Endowment for Taught design, landscape, and woodcut at UCLA. the Arts. Served as writer, managing editor, and editor for 1977 Dark and Light Magazine, Arthur Wesley Dow Association, UCLA. Painted and photographed in Created Barbara Morgan Dance Portfolio. the Southwest with Willard in the summers. Met Exhibition at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Edward Weston and began working in photogra- WI. phy 1978 1930 Received honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Moved to New York City. Traveled for Willard Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Morgan’s Leica Lectures. Photographed Barnes Included in book and exhibit, Recollections: Foundation art collection, Merion, Pennsylvania. Ten Women of Photography, International Center of Photography, New York. 1931 1980 Established a studio in New York for painting and lithography. Exhibited graphics at Weyhe Gallery, Exhibition of Photomontages, George Eastman New York, among other galleries. House, Rochester, NY. (Traveling exhibition). 1932 1984 Son Douglas born. Continued to exhibit paintings. Proclaimed “Barbara Morgan Day” in Greenburgh, NY by Supervisor of the Town 1934 1986 Solo painting and graphics exhibition, Mellon Gallery, Philadelphia. Received National Honor Award from the Women's Caucus for Art for her long and distin- 1935 guished career as a photographer. Son Lloyd born. Saw Martha Graham perform 1988 Primitive Mysteries. Began photographing Martha Graham dances. Published Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors & Photographs, exh. cat. Haggerty 1935-41 Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Established photography studio in New York. WI. (Traveling exhibition). Awarded Lifetime Exhibited city themes, dance, children, pho- Achievement Award by American Society of tomontages and light drawings. Magazine Photographers, Washington, D.C. 1941 Received a Certificate of Special Congressional Moved to Scarsdale, New York. Published Martha Recognition with Appreciation for Service and Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs. Achievement, from Richard H. Lehr, Member of Awarded American Institute of Graphic Arts Trade Congress. Book Clinic Award. 1989 1942-55 Honored with Annual Capezio Dance Award along Continued photographic projects and exhibitions. with Edward Vilella. Published Summer’s Children: A Photographic 1991 Cycle of Life at Camp. Picture-edited and Honored at the University Art Museum with a designed The World of Albert Schweitzer by Erica seminar and exhibition by the University of Anderson and Eugene Exman, 1955. Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1959 Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art-archeological trip to Greece, Spain, Italy, Photographic Insight Foundation. France and England. 1992 1961 Death of Barbara Morgan on August 17. Solo painting and graphics exhibition, Sherman Gallery, New York. 5 Graham & Hawkins’ Embrace Gelatin Silver Print Vintage 4 x 7 in. 6 Select List of Barbara Morgan Exhibitions 1961 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Exhibitions Sherman Gallery, New York, NY. 1984 1962 Queensborough Community College, New York; 1938 Barbara Morgan Retrospective, Arizona State Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Dance Photographs, YMHA., Lexington Ave., University, Tempe, AZ.; University of California, 1985 New York, NY; Bennington, College, Bennington, Berkeley, CA. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.; Chrysler VT. 1964 Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1939 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.; Société 1986 Dance Photographs, University of Minnesota, Française de Photographie, Paris, France. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Atlanta Minneapolis, MN.; Duke University, Durham, NC.; 1965 Ballet Co, Atlanta, GA. Kamin Dance Gallery, New York, NY.; A Portfolio Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA.; 1988 of the Dance, Columbia University, New York, Ceege Galleries, Los Angeles, CA.; University of Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, NY.; Wheaton College, Norton, MA; Los Angeles Louisville, Louisville, KY. Watercolors & Photographs, Haggerty County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1967 Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1940 Photography in the Fine Arts V, WI.; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.; Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Rochester Institute for Technology, Rochester, NY.; Dance Photograph, I, II, III and IV, traveling 1969 Wesleyan University, CT. exhibitions 1940-1943; Photographs of the Long Island University, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn, 1989 Dance, Photo League, New York, NY.; Pratt NY. Visions in Rhythm, Marymount College, Institute, Brooklyn, NY.; University of Minnesota, 1970 Tarrytown, NY. Minneapolis, MN. Barbara Morgan: Women, Cameras, and 1991 1941 Images IV, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, NY; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.; Baltimore DC.; Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, CA. I See America Dancing, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. 1971 Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI.; Shadows, Light, 1943 831 Gallery, Birmingham, MI.; Montclair Art Movement: Moments in American History Modern Dance in Photography, Carleton Museum, Montclair, NJ.; Utah State University, Highlights of dance productions by Martha College, Northfield, MN; Action Photography, Logan, UT. Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Museum of Modern Art, NY. 1972 Weidman, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY. 1944 Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, 1993 Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC.; TX.; Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Museum of A New Dance: Honoring Bill Bales at The Dance, First Annual Arts Forum, The Modem Art, New York, NY. Bennington College (1936-67), Bennington Woman's College of the University of North 1973 College, Bennington, VT; Barbara Morgan, Carolina, Greensboro, NC. King Pitcher Gallery for Contemporary Art, Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York, NY. 1945 Pittsburgh, PA.; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1994 Jewish Community Center, Detroit, MI.; Modem CA. Dance and People: The Passion of Barbara American Dance, Museum of Modem Art, New 1974 Morgan, Milton J. Weil Art Gallery, New York, York, NY.; National Gallery of Art traveling exhibi- Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. NY.; Barbara Morgan: Pioneer Photographer tion (Latin America).; United Nations Conference, 1976 of the Modem American Dance Movement, San Francisco, CA. G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.; 831 The Gallery at South Presbyterian Church, Dobbs 1946 Gallery, Birmingham, MI.; The Washington Gallery Ferry, NY.; Barbara Morgan 1935- Dance in America, Museum of Modern Art, NY; of Photography; LIFE’s Remarkable American 1945:Dialogues with Dance, Iona College, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.; University Women, International Center of Photography, New Rochelle, NY. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.; University of New York, NY. 1996 Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 1977 Dance in America: Lois Greenfield, Barbara 1947 The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.; Morgan, Gjon Mili, The Howard Greenberg Dance Photographs, World Youth Festival, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Gallery, New York, NY. Prague, Czechoslovakia. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.; Rochester 1997 1951 Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Vintage photomontage and light drawings Abstraction in Photography, Museum of 1978 From the 1930s and 1940s, Gallery 292, New Modern Art, NY. Williams College, Museum of Art, MA.; American