Director's Letter

In 2011, the UNM Art Museum
received a bounty of gifted
works of art that contributed
significantly to our educational
mission which includes, above
all, utilizing the permanent
collections for teaching and
exhibition purposes.


Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent, 1927, gelatin silver
print, Gift of Doris Bry in honor of
Luanne McKinnon. © 2012 Georgia
O'Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights
Society (ARS), New York. 2011.9

Among them are a rare
Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalent,
1927, the verso of which
states, in Stieglitz’s own
hand, instructions for
presenting the photograph
either vertically or horizontally
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Exhibitions

Please join us for the Museum re-opening Friday, February 10th from 5:00-7:00pm
with two new photography exhibitions:

Reconsidering the
Photographic Masterpiece

Hiroshi Sugimoto

On extended view:

Sinners and Saints: 15th – 19th 
Century Paintings in the Collection
Through March 11, 2012

An Inquisitive Eye, Seeing Into Prints
Through May 20, 2012

Wassily Kandinsky

News

Frederick Hammersley
Right On, 1995, oil on linen,
purchased with support from the
Keller Memorial Endowment and
Raymond Jonson Gallery Fund.
Copyright Frederick Hammersley
Foundation. T#2012.5.

Over one hundred works of art by the late Frederick Hammersley (American, 1919-2009.) were acquired by the UNM Art Museum in late December 2011. Among this group is the Museum’s purchase of Right On, 1995, from the “Organics” series, thirty rare figure drawings, ca. 1941 – 1985, and, a complete set of seventy-two computer prints, created in 1969, all of which were generously donated by the Frederick Hammersley Foundation.

The President and Executive Director, Kathleen Shields, has said, “The Frederick Hammersley Foundation is very pleased to donate these works to the University of New Mexico Art Museum. As one of our first gifts in Frederick Hammersley's name, it exemplifies our mission to promote the value of art in the life of the community through donating to public, and especially educational, institutions with which he was associated.”

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