Southwest Ties

New Mexico Museum of Art showcases highlights from its 20" Century Collection

Since 2022, with the additional exhibition space that became available with the opening of Vladem Contemporary, the New Mexico Museum of Art has dedicated a distinct space to showcasing highlights from its 20th Century Collection to ensure that works by the region's most iconic artists will always be available to visitors.

On view in the current iteration of the rotating exhibition are works by foundational Santa Fe artists Gerald Cassidy, Robert Henri, Luis Crow, Maria Martinez, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, John Sloan, Gustave Baumann and William Penhallow Henderson, and others. Also on view are paintings by members of the Taos Society of Artists, Los Cinco Pintores and Santa Fe Bohemians; as well as significant American Modernists including Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley and Andrew Dasburg; and Transcendentalist Agnes Pelton.

Other notable artists in the collection are early Hispano modernists Patrociño Barela and Esquípula Romero de Romero; and realists Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd from the southern part of the state.