University of New Mexico Art Museum

The University of New Mexico Art Museum (sometimes referred to as the University Art Museum or UNM Art Museum) is an art museum at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The museum's permanent collection includes nearly 30,000 objects, making it the largest collection of fine art in New Mexico. History In the early years following the opening of the museum in 1963, significant exhibitions were held of the work of Georgia O'Keeffe , Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt , Cady Wells , Andrew Dasburg , John Marin , and other Modernists . Van Deren Coke was the founding director of the Art Museum. Robert O. Parks was another early Art Museum director. Georgia O'Keeffe had included the University of New Mexico and another New Mexico museum in her will of 1979, but in a codicil signed in 1984 soon before her death deleted it. An. Collections The Art Museum's permanent collection includes the following collections: Photographs and prints . This collection includes over 10,000 photographs (ranging from daguerreotypes to digital photographs ) and over 17,000 prints (with a focus on lithographs ). The earliest prints date to the Nuremberg Chronicle , which appeared in 1493. Many of the museum's photographs, prints, and early cased objects are housed in the museum's Beaumont Newhall Study Room. Beaumont Newhall Collection . The museum holds a collection of works by photographer Beaumont Newhall , who became a professor of art history at UNM in 1971. The John D.