New Mexico Museum of Art
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The New Mexico Museum of Art (formerly the Museum of Fine Arts), the oldest art museum in the state of New Mexico, is one of four state-run museums in Santa Fe. It is one of eight museums in the state operated by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Built in 1917, it is a masterpiece of Pueblo Revival architecture, and one of Santa Fe's best representations of the synthesis of Native American and Spanish colonial design styles. The museum’s permanent collection and changing exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art place the art of the region into national and international contexts.
The museum located at 107 West Palace Avenue, one block off the historic Santa Fe Plaza.
[edit] Collection
The museum’s collection spans the historic art colonies of Taos and Santa Fe of the past hundred years to cutting-edge contemporary art from around the region and the world. Highlights of the museum’s 20,000 works of art include extensive collections of the Cinco Pintores; the Taos Society of Artists; the largest collection of Gustave Baumann; the Lucy Lippard Collection; major American photographers, including the Jane Reese Williams Collection of women photographers; new media, including video installations; and an important collection of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.
[edit] Exhibitions
The Museum has recently rehung its permanent collection into an exhibition called "How the West is One." The exhibition reexamines thinking about what constitutes "traditional art of the Southwest."
