Collections
UNM Art Museum Permanent Collection
With close to
30,000 objects, the University Art Museum houses by far the largest fine
art collections in New Mexico. These collections enable us to fulfill our
mandated missions: to educate about and through art, to directly support
the academic programs of the University of New Mexico, to enrich the cultural
life of the city and the state, and to contribute to the international
scholarly community. Some highlighted areas of our collections include:
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Photographs
We hold over 10,000 photographs, from early daguerreotypes to contemporary
digital images, by almost every recognized master of the medium (and
also by anonymous photojournalists and amateurs).
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Prints
Our print collection which contains close to 17,000
examples of the entire history of fine art printmaking. A special emphasis
is given to the history of lithography, from its invention (in 1798) to
now.
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Old Spain, New Spain, New Mexico
Through works of art, some by famous artists,
others by unknown artisans, we can see the still reverberating
consequences of the impacts of European and American civilizations upon
each other.
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Old Master Painting, Sculpture, And Drawing
Since the early years of the Museum an effort
was made to acquire a modest study collection of Old Master prints. These
were seen as both important in their own right, and as a useful prelude
to the advent of lithography.
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Nineteenth-Century
Art
Alongside our extensive holdings of prints and photographs,
we also have a fine study collection of 19th-century painting and sculpture,
from both Europe and the United States. More so than most other museums,
it has been our belief and practice that these mediums should be experienced
side-by-side: that painting and sculpture (in addition to their intrinsic
worth) illuminate the context within which artist-lithographers and artist-photographers
lived and worked.
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Early Modern Art
In addition to
the New Mexican Modernism in our permanent collection, Europeans such
as Picasso, Kandinsky, Picabia, and Schmidt-Rotluff, rub shoulders
with their American contemporaries, and as always photographs and prints
hold their own with paintings and sculpture.
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Art Since 1950
While we concentrate on work by American artists,
we have special emphasis upon California art from both the Bay area and
Los Angeles.
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The Mary Lester Field And Neill
B. Field Collection
Formed by an early 20th-century mayor of Albuquerque
and his wife, and bequeathed to the University of New Mexico in 1939.
It comprises 94 pieces of Spanish Colonial silver, and 22 (mostly 19th-century
New Mexican) santos.
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The Tamarind Archive Collection
A division of the University of New Mexico.
The UNM Art Museum archives two impressions of every Tamarind edition,
both from it's ealier Los Angeles days and from its continuing Albuquerque
productions.
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The Beaumont Newhall Collection
The collection of work by Beaumond Newhall was started
to honor his contributions to the field of the history of photography,
and to reflect his scholarly interests.
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The Albert A. Anella
Collection In Memory Of Mia Anella
The Anella Collection comprises six important Italian
paintings from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
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The Theodore J. Labhard Collection
Formed by a California collector, and purchased
from this estate originally as a study collection housed in UNM's Department
of Art and Art History, this group of 481 daguerrotypes (and related
processes: ambrotypes, ivorytypes, tintypes, etc.) constitutes the vast
majority of cased images at the UNM Art Museum. What all of these early
processes have in common is that they produced only single images directly
upon a prepared , and highly polished, surface; without an intervening
negative, they could not be duplicated.
The Clinton Adams Archive Collection
In 1996, Adams donated impressions of his entire non-Tamarind print oeuvre adding to his Tamarind work that was already part of the University Art Museum Collection, thus enabling the establishment of this complete archive of his work in all print mediums.
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The Clinton And Mary Adams Collections
Over the years, Clinton and Mary Adams have donated
many splendid works—primarily, works related to Clinton Adams's scholarly
interests in the history of 19th and 20th-century prints—to the University
Art Museum. In 1997, the decision was made to honor those gifts with
this special designation.
The Taller
De Grafica Popular Collection
University of New Mexico holdings of 300 prints
and posters produced at this politically and aesthetically important
Mexico City printmaking cooperative are split between the UNM Art Museum
and the Center for Southwest Research at the General Library.
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The Jerome Bowers Peterson Memorial Collection
In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Carl Van Vechten
photographed scores of notable African-Americans, who comprised the later
stages of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. This extensive collection-82
images- of Van Vechten's portraits came to the University of New Mexico
in 1955 and 1956, as a result of UNM English professor Edward Leuder's
publishing a book on the photographer.
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