New Mexico Museum of Art

History

The building was designed by architect Isaac Rapp and completed in 1917. It is an example of Pueblo Revival Style architecture, 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, Laguna, Santa Ana and Pecos.

In September 2023, the museum opened Vladem Contemporary in the Railyard district as a dedicated venue for contemporary art.

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, Gustave Baumann, Brian O'Connor, Georgia O'Keeffe, Fritz Scholder, T. C. Cannon, Bruce Nauman, Luis Jimenez, Maria Martinez, members of the Ashcan School, Los Cinco Pintores, Transcendental Painting Group, and the Taos Society of Artists.

Paintings

'Cui Bono' by Gerald Cassidy, c. 1911, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG | Gerald Cassidy, Cui Bono, 1911 '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 'Taos Pueblo--Moonlight' by Eanger Irving Couse.JPG | Eanger Irving Couse, Taos Pueblo—Moonlight, 1914 'My Children' by William Herbert Dunton, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG | William Herbert Dunton, My Children, 1920 'El Santo' by Marsden Hartley, 1919, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG | Marsden Hartley, El Santo, 1919 'Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo' by Robert Henri, 1916.JPG | Robert Henri, Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1916 'Pueblo Adobes' by William Penhallow Henderson, 1918, pastel .JPG | William Penhallow Henderson, Pueblo Adobes, 1918 'Noon' by William Penhallow Henderson, New Mexico Museum of Art.JPG | William Penhallow Henderson, Noon, 1920 'Mesa Encantada' by William Henry Holmes, 1914, watercolor.JPG | William Henry Holmes, Mesa Encantada, 1914 '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.

Vladem Contemporary

The Vladem Contemporary Annex of the New Mexico Museum of Art is scheduled to open in September 2023. The annex will house the New Mexico Museum of Art's contemporary collections and shows. The renovation project is an adaptive reuse of the 1936 Charles Ilfeld Warehouse (repurposed and renamed as the State of New Mexico's Joseph F Halpin Records Building). The annex is named for philanthropists Bob and Ellen Vladem.

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