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Former name | Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery[1] |
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| Established | 1917 |
| Location | 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 35°41′17″N105°56′21″W / 35.6881°N 105.9392°W /35.6881; -105.9392 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Website | nmartmuseum |
TheNew Mexico Museum of Art is an art museum inSanta Fe governed by the state ofNew Mexico, United States. It is one of four state-run museums in Santa Fe that are part of theMuseum of New Mexico. It is located one block off the historicSanta Fe Plaza. It was given its current name in 2007, having previously been referred to as The Museum of Fine Arts.[2]
The building was designed by architectIsaac Rapp and completed in 1917.[3] It is an example ofPueblo Revival Style architecture,[4] and one of Santa Fe's best-known representations of the synthesis ofNative American andSpanish Colonial design styles. The façade was based on the mission churches ofAcoma,San Felipe,Cochiti,Laguna,Santa Ana andPecos.[5]
In September 2023, the museum opened Vladem Contemporary in the Railyard district as a dedicated venue for contemporary art.[6][7]
The museum’s art collection includes over 20,000 paintings, photographs, sculptures, prints, drawings and mixed-media works. Notable artists in the collection includeAnsel Adams,Gustave Baumann,Brian O'Connor,Georgia O'Keeffe,Fritz Scholder,T. C. Cannon,Bruce Nauman,Luis Jimenez,Maria Martinez, members of theAshcan School,Los Cinco Pintores, Transcendental Painting Group, and theTaos Society of Artists.[8]
The St. Francis Auditorium, located in the New Mexico Museum of Art, is the venue for various cultural and musical organizations, including theSanta Fe Chamber Music Festival and theSanta Fe Community Orchestra. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 450.[9] The auditorium displays several murals depictingSt. Francis of Assisi which were originally designed by Donald Beauregard and completed byCarlos Vierra andKenneth M. Chapman.[10]
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.[11]
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.[12][13] 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.[14][15][16]
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