RMAC / COLLECTIONS /ART

Contact Information:

Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
Roswell Museum and Art Center
100 West 11th Street
Roswell, NM 88201
575-624-6744, extension 15

Registrar
Roswell Museum and Art Center
100 West 11th Street
Roswell, NM 88201
575-624-6744, extension 13

RMAC Online Collections Link:

RMAC PastPerfect Online Database
This website presents a searchable database of over 1,000 objects from the RMAC Permanent Collection. Launched at the end of 2011, further records will be added over time.

Celebrating New Mexico Statehood
This website provides access to cultural heritage materials from twelve New Mexico institutions including the Roswell Museum and Art Center. This project is hosted by UNM Libraries and is funded by UNM's Center for Regional Studies.

The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s permanent collection is comprised of fine art and historical materials that chronicle specific areas of cultural change in the Southwest while recognizing this region’s relationship to the broader American society.

This collection contains significant examples of historic, regional, modern, and contemporary art. Highlights include:

A magnificent collection of 71 watercolor sketches by Peter Moran from the 1880s that record Pueblo Indian life.
Outstanding early modernist works from the Santa Fe and Taos art colonies including works by Jozef Bakos, Ernest Blumenschein, Andrew Dasburg, Stuart Davis, Fremont Ellis, Marsden Hartley, William Penhallow Henderson, Robert Henri, Victor Higgins, Raymond Jonson, John Marin, Walter Mruk, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Will Shuster, among others.
The largest and most significant public collection of the important regionalists Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd who celebrated the landscape and traditions of southeastern New Mexico’s Hondo Valley.
The largest public collection of works by Taos artist and WPA muralist Howard Cook.
Contemporary fine arts from significant artists of the region—Harmony Hammond, Bob Hazous, Ken Little, William Lumpkins, Agnes Martin, and Jim Waid—as well as the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program—Stuart Arends, Robert Colescott, Luis Jimenez, Willard Midgette, David Reed, Milton Resnick and Elmer Schooley.
An international print collection that dates from the 16th century to present and includes works by Salvador Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, and Fritz Scholder.
The Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design, a prized collection of woodblock prints produced by E. Boyd for the Federal Arts Project as New Mexico’s contribution to the Index of American Design.

Peter Moran, Pueblo, Santa Domingo, c. 1880s, graphite and opaque watercolor on paper

Agnes Martin, The Bluebird, 1954, oil on canvas.

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Peter Moran, Pueblo, Santa Domingo, c. 1880s, graphite and opaque watercolor on paper.

Agnes Martin, The Bluebird, 1954, oil on canvas.

Luis Jimenez, The Rose Tattoo, 1983, color lithograph and glitter on paper.

This collection contains unique examples of hand-crafted furniture and decorative objects that were the original furnishings of the Museum when it opened in 1937, primarily made by WPA-era Hispanic craftsmen for the Federal Art Project.

©2007-2009 Roswell Museum and Art Center. All Rights Reserved. Images may be protected by copyright or other restrictions.
No images may be reproduced, transmitted, copied, or otherwise used without permission.






	Contact Information: Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Roswell Museum and Art Center 100 West 11th Street Roswell, NM 88201 575-624-6744, extension 15 Registrar Roswell Museum and Art Center 100 West 11th Street Roswell, NM 88201 575-624-6744, extension 13 RMAC Online Collections Link: RMAC PastPerfect Online Database This website presents a searchable database of over 1,000 objects from the RMAC Permanent Collection. Launched at the end of 2011, further records will be added over time. Celebrating New Mexico Statehood This website provides access to cultural heritage materials from twelve New Mexico institutions including the Roswell Museum and Art Center. This project is hosted by UNM Libraries and is funded by UNM's Center for Regional Studies.	The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s permanent collection is comprised of fine art and historical materials that chronicle specific areas of cultural change in the Southwest while recognizing this region’s relationship to the broader American society.


		This collection contains significant examples of historic, regional, modern, and contemporary art. Highlights include:
		A magnificent collection of 71 watercolor sketches by Peter Moran from the 1880s that record Pueblo Indian life. Outstanding early modernist works from the Santa Fe and Taos art colonies including works by Jozef Bakos, Ernest Blumenschein, Andrew Dasburg, Stuart Davis, Fremont Ellis, Marsden Hartley, William Penhallow Henderson, Robert Henri, Victor Higgins, Raymond Jonson, John Marin, Walter Mruk, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Will Shuster, among others. The largest and most significant public collection of the important regionalists Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd who celebrated the landscape and traditions of southeastern New Mexico’s Hondo Valley. The largest public collection of works by Taos artist and WPA muralist Howard Cook. Contemporary fine arts from significant artists of the region—Harmony Hammond, Bob Hazous, Ken Little, William Lumpkins, Agnes Martin, and Jim Waid—as well as the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program—Stuart Arends, Robert Colescott, Luis Jimenez, Willard Midgette, David Reed, Milton Resnick and Elmer Schooley. An international print collection that dates from the 16th century to present and includes works by Salvador Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, and Fritz Scholder. The Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design, a prized collection of woodblock prints produced by E. Boyd for the Federal Arts Project as New Mexico’s contribution to the Index of American Design.	Top to bottom: Peter Moran, Pueblo, Santa Domingo, c. 1880s, graphite and opaque watercolor on paper. Agnes Martin, The Bluebird, 1954, oil on canvas. Luis Jimenez, The Rose Tattoo, 1983, color lithograph and glitter on paper.


		This collection contains unique examples of hand-crafted furniture and decorative objects that were the original furnishings of the Museum when it opened in 1937, primarily made by WPA-era Hispanic craftsmen for the Federal Art Project.

©2007-2009 Roswell Museum and Art Center. All Rights Reserved. Images may be protected by copyright or other restrictions. No images may be reproduced, transmitted, copied, or otherwise used without permission.