Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection

Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection

Milwaukee Art Museum

Dates: Feb 10 2012 - May 06 2012


Admission: $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, kids age 12 and under are free
Location: Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive
Region: Downtown
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This exhibition celebrates the gift to the Milwaukee Art Museum of the Anthony Petullo Collection. Comprising more than 300 works, the gift greatly enhances the Milwaukee Art Museum's significant holdings of self-taught material. Petullo, a retired Milwaukee businessman and current Board of Trustees member, built his collection over a span of over thirty years.The collection's strength is in European work, an area represented in few American collections.The exhibition will feature works by many of the most important American and European artists in the genre including Bill Traylor, Mart�n Ram�rez, Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Alfred Wallis, Anna Zemankova, Adolf W�lfli, and Scottie Wilson.