Haggin Museum

06/07/2026

Haggin a la Carte | Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$45 Haggin Museum Members | $55 Non-Members
https://hagginmuseum.org/events/haggin-a-la-carte/

Haggin á la Carte is a signature event that brings hundreds of attendees to the museum for art, food, and lively entertainment.

This year’s event is elevated by a rare opportunity to experience spectacular original illustrations by Tony DeZuniga (1932–2012), a pioneering Filipino comic artist and legendary illustrator. As the first Filipino comic book artist published by American companies, DeZuniga paved the way for generations of artists. Renowned for his groundbreaking work with DC Comics, he co-created iconic characters such as Jonah Hex and Black Orchid, leaving a lasting legacy in comic book history.

PARTICIPATING FOOD & BEVERAGE VENDORS
Acquiesce Winery
Chefkelly Catering
Claudia’s Catering
Country Catering
Delicato Family Wines
Island Gourmet
LVVR Sparkling Cellars
McKenzie Vineyards & Winery
Mettler Family Vineyards
Mezzo Ristorante
Nash + Tender
Octavio’s
Peking Restaurant
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Toscano Family Farm

**Get ready to capture the unforgettable night with One Magic Event! We’re excited to bring this fun new feature to our 2026 celebration—so strike a pose and let the night’s energy shine.

**Have your caricature drawn by artist Bill Wylie! Bill graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.F.A. in Illustration. He began his career as an artist for Marvel Comics and has built an extensive career as a caricature artist, comic book artist, and storyboard artist in the film and advertising industry in NYC.

**Visit the Museum Store to meet Nathanael Lark, the creator behind Island Time. This fun and heartfelt comic strip features a curious puppy named Benny and his two human parents living on a tropical island. Throughout the evening, Nathanael will be sharing about his creative process.

06/06/2026

During your visits to the Haggin Museum did you ever wonder how the Holt '75 Tractor got in the building?

Holt '75 Tractor
In 1883, Benjamin Holt and his brothers opened a factory in Stockton and began manufacturing combined harvesters and steam-powered traction engines helping to make California one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions and Stockton as the state’s leading manufacturer of farm machinery.

Any number of lucrative orchard and row crops could be grown in the rich peat dirt of the Delta islands west of Stockton, but the heavy, round wheels of the traction engines used to pull farm machinery often became mired in this soft, spongy soil. In response to this problem, Holt developed the first commercially successful track-type tractor, which he trademarked as the “Caterpillar.” It employed a self-laying continuous track that provided more traction and surface bearing area than round wheels, thereby preventing the tractor from becoming stuck.

A restored Holt ‘75’ Caterpillar is the highlight of the Holt Hall at the Museum which pays tribute to Benjamin Holt's contributions to the mechanization of agriculture.

06/05/2026

In recognition of World Environment Day, we’re turning our attention to one of the Haggin Museum’s most iconic works: Looking up Yosemite Valley (ca. 1863–1875) by Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830–1902).

Yosemite Valley has been entwined with human identity for more than six thousand years, first inhabited and stewarded by the First People whose deep relationship with the land shaped its story long before it became a national symbol. In the 19th century, voices like John Muir carried Yosemite’s majesty into the national imagination, while artists like Bierstadt translated its vastness and light into paintings that helped inspire the early conservation movement.

On World Environment Day, Bierstadt’s luminous vision reminds us that protecting the natural world is not a modern idea — it’s a legacy we inherit.

06/04/2026

ARTIST Bio Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956)

Marie Laurencin worked outside of the traditional French system for training artists. As a young woman, she studied porcelain painting at the Sèvres factory school before enrolling at the progressive Académie Humbert in Paris. The Académie Humbert accepted female students; however, women were only permitted to attend evening classes. Laurencin soon met fellow student Georges Braque. With Braque, Laurencin became part of the circle of artists who worked in the Bateau-Lavoir, a building dedicated to studios and living spaces for artists at the foot of Montmartre. Painters Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Amedeo Modigliani worked and gathered there; so did writers like Guillaume Apollianaire, and Gertrude Stein. This heady cocktail of creativity led to Cubism.

Laurencin developed a style that was similar to early Cubist works with their shallow sense of space and flat planes of color. She exhibited with Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1912, and at the Armory Show in New York in 1913. Laurencin spent the years of World War I in Spain, where she met a number of artists who were later associated with Dada and Surrealism. During this period, her style and subject matter evolved and she became known for black-eyed female figures, alone or in pairs, often with a horse, a deer, or a dog. Laurencin’s palette favored pale greens, roses, and blues.

After World War I, Laurencin returned to Paris, where she remained for the rest of her life. She enjoyed success as an avant-garde portraitist during the 1920s, painting the fashion designer Coco Chanel, among others. Laurencin designed costumes and sets for Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes production of François Poulenc and Bronislava Nijinska’s ballet Les biches (“The Little Darlings”) in 1923-24. Both Picasso and Matisse also designed for the Ballet Russes; Laurencin was working in good company.

In addition to painting in oils and watercolors, Laurencin worked as an illustrator and graphic designer, creating stage designs, posters, and lithographs. She exhibited her work regularly in New York throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

06/03/2026

In celebration of World Bicycle Day, we share a few photographs from the Haggin Museum Archival Collection.

Before freeways and traffic lights, Stockton was a bicycle city. In the 1890s, local riders formed some of California’s earliest cycling clubs, gathering at dusty fairgrounds for races that drew half the town. Merchants on Main Street sold gleaming “safeties” and high‑wheelers, and Sunday group rides rolled past orchards, levees, and the young port.

Stockton’s cycling roots run so deep that the city once hosted some of the region’s most competitive wheelmen — proof that our love for two wheels isn’t a trend, but a tradition.

Don’t miss the second photograph by V. Covert Martin, capturing a daredevil moment at Jackson’s Baths: a man on a bicycle launching down a massive wooden ramp perched on the roof of a two‑story building, plunging straight into the water as crowds gather below to watch.

06/02/2026

Get ready for the next EXHIBITS READS at the Haggin Museum -- The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu

Travel back to the sensational world of mid-century America with The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu. This captivating book uncovers the dramatic rise and fall of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s, when superheroes, detectives, and horror stories sparked both imagination and outrage.

Hajdu traces how comics became a cultural battleground, blamed for corrupting youth and igniting a nationwide moral panic. Through vivid storytelling and interviews with artists, writers, and editors, he reveals how censorship reshaped popular culture and silenced a generation of creative voices.
Paired with Tony DeZuniga, Stockton Comic Book Artist, and The Korshak Collection: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature, this Exhibit Reads invites you to explore the golden age of comics and the artists who brought fantasy, heroism, and rebellion to life on the page.

Join us on Saturday, August 15th, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM for a lively discussion of The Ten-Cent Plague, a closer look at Tony DeZuniga’s dynamic comic artistry, and an exploration of The Korshak Collection: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature. Together, these exhibitions illuminate the boundless creativity that shaped the comic books and fantasy art genres, challenged conventions, inspired generations, and forever changed American culture.

Pick-up a copy of the book in the Haggin Museum Store. Look forward to seeing you on Saturday, August 15th. See less

06/01/2026

Inspiring Joy and Building Community Through the Magic of Music

For one hundred years, the Stockton Symphony has been more than an orchestra—it has been the heartbeat of our community. Born from the dreams of Manlio Silva, this remarkable ensemble has not only brought world-class music to our region but shaped lives and built bridges across generations, cultures, and neighborhoods.

From grand symphonic celebrations to intimate emotional insights, from elementary school classrooms to elegant ballrooms, the Symphony has touched countless lives with the transforming power of music.

As we honor these first hundred years, we also look forward, inviting you to dream with us about the Symphony’s next century of building community through the magic of music.

In celebration of this milestone, the Haggin Museum is honored to be hosting the Stockton Symphony: Inspiring Joy and Building Community Through the Magic of Music exhibition through February 7, 2027.

Pictured: Manlio Silva (1893–1958), conductor and violinist, founder of the Stockton Symphony, 1912
-- Courtesy Bank of Stockton

05/31/2026

LAST DAY (Sunday, May 31, 2026) to catch Picturing America’s Pastime: A Snapshot of the Photographic Collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at the Haggin Museum.

Since the 19th century, baseball and photography have grown up together. From the grandeur of the early game to the vibrancy of today’s sport, every facet of our national pastime has been captured in sepia, color, and black-and-white.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s collection of over a quarter million images are the world’s premier repository of baseball photographs, panning some 150 years of the sport’s history. Picturing America’s Pastime, a new exhibit curated by the Hall of Fame, features a selection of these timeless photographs, each accompanied by the words of those who were there and those who echoed the sentiments of photographer Charles Conlon.

Stockton, like many other cities across our nation, has a rich baseball history. From little League to Legion to the California League, Stockton teams have one thing in common – the love of the game.

We were able to include some local baseball photographs to the exhibition such as this one:

Gearing up for a Ports Game at Billy Hebert Field, c. 1953

Here a Cubs manager, the Ports affiliate in 1953, posing with an amateur player from local Vernon Post 338 of the American Legion at Billy Hebert Field.
-- Courtesy Bank of Stockton, colorized by Dick Belcher

05/30/2026

"He was standing in the midst of a baseball player’s dream world. The cameras were whirring and the white television lights filled the room, and people were being interviewed on a small wooden platform. Champagne and eggs and shaving cream were being used in varied, unique ways.”
— Boston Globe reporter Leigh Montville on Carlton Fisk, October 8, 1975

Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk fields questions from the press in the clubhouse following Boston’s American League Championship Series victory over the Oakland A’s, October 7, 1975. Two weeks later, Fisk repeated the scene after hitting his celebrated 12th-inning home run in Game Six of the World Series.
-- photograph by Doug McWilliams

LAST WEEKEND to see Picturing America’s Pastime: A Snapshot of the Photographic Collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at the Haggin Museum (open through Sunday, May 31, 2026).

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s collection of over a quarter million images are the world’s premier repository of baseball photographs, spanning some 150 years of the sport’s history. Picturing America’s Pastime, a new exhibit curated by the Hall of Fame, features a selection of these timeless photographs, each accompanied by the words of those who were there and those who echoed the sentiments of photographer Charles Conlon.

05/30/2026