New Mexico Museum of Art Discover Our Digital Museum! As New Mexico Museum of Art staff weather the coronavirus pandemic at home, their work on future exhibitions and educational programming continues. Staff are also devising current and creative ways to reach museum-goers digitally, ensuring that you stay close to the museum while staying home. These online offerings include the twice-weekly Instagram feature Isolation Inspiration, where local artists share what is inspiring them during this time of social isolation through video and photography submissions. Museum curators are also presenting a series of online exhibitions. Visit these resources and stay connected today!
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A Natural Home
The Beaumont Newhall Library Most artistic collections have a traceable lineage, often bestowed upon institutions that enjoyed a close relationship with the artist. In the case of the Beaumont Newhall Library, its new home at the New Mexico Museum of Art falls perfectly in line with the collection’s heritage. The Newhall Library photographic research archive is a trove of 3,500 books and catalogs collected by the man many still consider to have written the seminal book on photography. (That would be The History of Photography, published in 1937, just before Newhall became the first curator of the Museum of Modern Art’s photography department.) The collection also includes additional archival material. Newhall was a beloved longtime Santa Fe resident who taught photography at the University of New Mexico after his retirement from his museum career. Former Museum of Art curator of photography Steve Yates was a Newhall student and exhibition collaborator. Santa Fe artist and photo dealer David Scheinbaum also knew Newhall. He provided the Museum of Art with several Newhall prints and portraits of Newhall with photographers Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke. David Scheinbaum, Beaumont Newhall, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1982. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum in memory of Beaumont Newhall, 1993 (1993.27.1). © David Scheinbaum.
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