The New Mexico Museum of Art is an art museum in Santa Fe governed by the state of

New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...

. It is one of four state-run museums in Santa Fe that are part of the

Museum of New Mexico The Museum of New Mexico is a collection of museums, historic sites, and archaeological services governed by the State of New Mexico. It currently consists of six divisions : the Palace of the Governors state history museum, the New Mexico Museum of ...

. It is located at 107 West Palace Avenue, one block off the historic

Santa Fe Plaza The Santa Fe Plaza is a National Historic Landmark in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico in the style of traditional Spanish-American colonial cities. The plaza, or city square is a gathering place for locals and also a tourist attraction. It is home ...

. It was given its current name in 2007, having previously been referred to as The Museum of Fine Arts.

History

The building was designed by architect

Isaac Rapp Isaac Hamilton Rapp, (1854 – March 27, 1933) was an American architect who has been called the "Creator of the Santa Fe style." He was born in Orange, New Jersey. Rapp learned his trade working for his father, a sometime architect and building ...

and completed in 1917. It is an example of

Pueblo Revival Style architecture In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spai ...

, and one of Santa Fe's best-known representations of the synthesis of Native American and Spanish Colonial design styles. The façade was based on the mission churches of

Acoma Acoma may refer to: * ''Acoma'' (beetle), a scarab beetle genus of subfamily Melolonthinae * Acoma Pueblo, a Native American pueblo * Acoma, Nevada, a ghost town * Acoma Township, McLeod County, Minnesota, US * , more than one ship of the US Navy ...

, San Felipe,

Cochiti Cochiti (; Eastern Keresan: Kotyit ʰocʰi̥tʰ– "Forgotten", Navajo: ''Tǫ́ʼgaaʼ'') is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. A historic pueblo of the Cochiti people, it is part of the Albuquerque Me ...

, Laguna, Santa Ana and Pecos.

Collections

The museum’s art collection includes over 20,000 paintings, photographs, sculptures, prints, drawings and mixed-media works. Notable artists in the collection include

Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...

Gustave Baumann Gustave Baumann (June 27, 1881 – October 8, 1971) was an American printmaker and painter, and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America. His works have been shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, The C ...

, Brian O'Connor,

Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Ame ...

Fritz Scholder Fritz William Scholder V (October 6, 1937 – February 10, 2005) was a Native American artist. Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luiseños, a California Mission tribe. Schold ...

, T. C. Cannon,

Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

, Luis Jimenez,

Maria Martinez Maria Montoya Martinez (1887, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico – July 20, 1980, San Ildefonso Pueblo) was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Poveka Montoya), her husband Julian, and o ...

, members of the

Ashcan School The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. ...

Los Cinco Pintores Los Cinco Pintores ("The Five Painters") was a group of early 20th-century artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico that included Will Shuster, Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Jozef Bakos, and Willard Nash. By 1921, Shuster, Ellis, Mruk, Bakos, and Nash had ...

, Transcendental Painting Group, and the

Taos Society of Artists The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico. Established in 1915, it was disbanded in 1927. The Society was essentially a commercial cooperative, as opposed to a stylistic collective, and its foundation ...

Paintings

File:'Cui Bono' by Gerald Cassidy, c. 1911, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG, Gerald Cassidy, ''Cui Bono'', 1911 File:'View of Santa Fe Plaza in the 1850s' by Gerald Cassidy, c. 1930.JPG, Gerald Cassidy, ''View of Santa Fe Plaza in the 1850s'', 1930 File:'Taos Pueblo--Moonlight' by Eanger Irving Couse.JPG, Eanger Irving Couse, ''Taos Pueblo—Moonlight'', 1914 File:'My Children' by William Herbert Dunton, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG, William Herbert Dunton, ''My Children'', 1920 File:'El Santo' by Marsden Hartley, 1919, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG, Marsden Hartley, ''El Santo'', 1919 File:'Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo' by Robert Henri, 1916.JPG, Robert Henri, ''Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo'', 1916 File:'Pueblo Adobes' by William Penhallow Henderson, 1918, pastel .JPG, William Penhallow Henderson, ''Pueblo Adobes'', 1918 File:'Noon' by William Penhallow Henderson, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG, William Penhallow Henderson, ''Noon'', 1920 File:'Mesa Encantada' by William Henry Holmes, 1914, watercolor.JPG, William Henry Holmes, ''Mesa Encantada'', 1914 File:'Santa Fe Mountains in October' by Sheldon Parsons, before 1919.JPG, Sheldon Parsons, ''Santa Fe Mountains in October'', 1919

St. Francis Auditorium

The St. Francis Auditorium, located in the New Mexico Museum of Art, is the venue for various cultural and musical organizations, including the

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is a six-week-long summer Festival of chamber music held annually in July and August and located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was founded in 1972 and presented its first series of concerts in 1973. Well-known mu ...

and the

Santa Fe Community Orchestra Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnight ...

. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 450. The auditorium displays several murals depicting

St. Francis of Assisi Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Francesco d'Assisi; – 3 October 1226), was a mystic Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christianit ...

which were originally designed by Donald Beauregard and completed by

Carlos Vierra Carlos Vierra (October 3, 1876 – 1937) was an American painter, illustrator and photographer of Portuguese descent. Early life Carlos Vierra was born and raised in Moss Landing, California near Monterey by his father, Portuguese sailor, C ...

and

Kenneth M. Chapman Kenneth M. "Chap" Chapman (1875–1968) was an art historian, arts administrator, anthropologist, writer, teacher, and researcher of Native American art and culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The New Mexico Archive said of Chapman: "An advocate of I ...

Library

The museum library contains art books, periodicals, biographical files of artists whose work is collected by the museum and catalogs of the museum's exhibitions since 1917.

References

Citations

Works cited

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External links

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