Key Milwaukee

March 2013

An A-Z visitors guide to Milwaukee Wisconsin. Sponsored by Key Magazine Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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thanks to companies such as Kodak. At the same time, artists were exploring the potential of color photography for their own creative practice. The exhibition���s curators are Hostetler, former curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum and currently McAvoy Family Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Katherine A. Bussard, curator of photography with the Princeton University Art Museum. Among the artists represented in Color Rush are Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, Saul Leiter, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, L��szl�� Moholy-Nagy, Nickolas Muray, Paul Outerbridge, Eliot Porter, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Joel Sternfeld, and Edward Weston. Celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2013, the Milwaukee Art Museum collection houses more than 30,000 works, with strengths in 19th- and 20thcentury American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and selftaught art. The museum campus on the shores of Lake Michigan spans three buildings, including the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion and the Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center. Located at 700 N. Art Museum Dr., the museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun., with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursdays. General admission, which includes all special exhibitions, is $15 for adults and $12 for students over 12, seniors and active military. There is no admission charge the first Thursday of every month (excluding groups). Visit www.mam.org for more information. Major funding for Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America was provided by the Herzfeld Foundation. Additional support came from the Milwaukee Art Museum���s Friends of Art, Christine A. Symchych and James P. McNulty, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Kenneth and Christine Tanaka, Mrs. Robert O. Levitt, and the Milwaukee Art Museum���s Photography Council. Photo on page 8: Joel Meyerowitz (American, b. 1938) Red Interior, Provincetown, 1977. Chromogenic print, 1985. Page 9, from top: Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (American, 1896���1958) Avocado Pears, 1936; Jack Delano (American, 1914-1997) At the Vermont State Fair, Rutland, Sept. 1941; John Vachon (American, 1914-1975), Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943. 9

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