Expert Series: “The Bradley Collection of Modern Art”
2025-10-09 18:15 - 19:15 (America/Chicago) | Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Celebrate 50 years of Peg Bradley’s extraordinary gift of twentieth-century masterpieces that shaped the Museum’s collection and Milwaukee’s cultural landscape. Learn more about how Mrs. Harry Lynde (“Peg”) Bradley built this collection and the role of color, sculpture, and works on paper in creating a world-class art collection.
Join a panel of art historians for a conversation about the collection’s impact moderated by Margaret Andera, senior curator of contemporary art and co-curator of The Bradley Collection of Modern Art: A Bold Vision for Milwaukee.
This drop-in program is included with Museum admission and free for Members. Tickets available at the door or online.
The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.

Meet the experts
Marin R. Sullivan, PhD, is a Chicago-based art historian, curator, and consultant. She specializes in the histories of modern and contemporary sculpture, especially its interdisciplinary, intermedial dialogues with photography, design, and the built environment. Sullivan is the author of Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism (Routledge, 2017) as well as numerous catalogues, essays, and articles. Sullivan is currently at work on a biography of Claire Falkenstein and is co-curating Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer,” scheduled to open at the High Museum in 2026. She is also Director of Research and Programs for the George Rickey Foundation, and a lecturer at DePaul University.

Caitlin Haskell serves as the Gary C. and Frances Comer Senior Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, a post she has held since 2018. An expert on the art and criticism of the historical avant-gardes in Europe and the Americas, Haskell’s recent exhibitions and publications include Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds (2025); Remedios Varo: Science Fictions (2023); Cezanne (2022); Ray Johnson c/o (2021); and René Magritte: The Fifth Season (2018), among others. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in art from Davidson College.

Nikki Otten is the associate curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she is responsible for works on paper from the 15th to the 21st century. Since joining the Museum in 2018, Otten has curated Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking (2019), Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret (2022), and Currents 39: LaToya M. Hobbs, Carving Out Time (2024), in addition to several rotations of American and European art drawn from the collection. Her recent projects include Reviving the Dance of Death (2025) and an upcoming exhibition on German Romantic prints and drawings.

Sponsored by
Milwaukee Art Museum’s Contemporary Arts Society
Milwaukee Art Museum’s Fine Arts Society
Image: Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876–1958), The Wheat Field (Champs de Blé) (detail), ca. 1906. Oil on canvas. 25 15/16 × 32 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (65.9 × 81.8 × 3 cm); framed: 24 1/4 × 41 in. (61.6 × 104.14 cm). Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, M1953.12 © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
