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

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. 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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