The New Mexico Museum of Art is an art museum in Santa Fe governed by the state of
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
. It is one of four state-run museums in
Santa Fe that are part of the
Museum of New Mexico. It is located at 107 West Palace Avenue, one block off the historic
Santa Fe Plaza. 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 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,
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 Monochrome photography, black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association ...
,
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 Cl ...
,
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. Scho ...
,
T. C. Cannon
Tommy Wayne Cannon (September 27, 1946 – May 8, 1978) (Kiowa) was an important Native American artist of the 20th century. He was popularly known as T. C. Cannon. He was an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe and also had Caddo and French ...
,
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,
Los Cinco Pintores, Transcendental Painting Group, and the
Taos Society of Artists.
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 and the
Santa Fe Community Orchestra. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 450.
The auditorium displays several murals depicting
St. Francis of Assisi which were originally designed by Donald Beauregard and completed by
Carlos Vierra and
Kenneth M. Chapman.
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.
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