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Santa Fe Site Seeing - Musuem of Fine Arts

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An historic photograph of the New Mexico Museum of Art The New Mexico Museum of Art is a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, which also includes the Museum of International Folk Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Palace of the Governors, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.

The Museum was founded in 1917 as the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico. Housed in a spectacular Pueblo Revival building designed by I. H. and William M. Rapp, it was based on their New Mexico building.


Donald Beauregard was commissioned to paint a series of murals about the life of Saint Francis, Santa Fe's patron saint, for the Saint Francis Auditorium, one of Santa Fe's premier performance spaces. Carlos Vierra and Kenneth M. Chapman finished the murals after Beauregard died.

at the Panama-California Exposition (1915). The museum's architecture inaugurated what has come to be known as "Santa Fe Style."

 

The building combines aspects of several Southwestern regional styles including elements of the facades of the Spanish mission churches of Acoma, Laguna and San Felipe Pueblos.

For more than eighty-five years the Museum has collected and exhibited work by artists from New Mexico and elsewhere.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled, Desert Abstraction Bear Lake, 1931, Oil on canvas, 16.5 x 36.5 in., Museum of New Mexico Foundation Collection

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