Highlights From the Collection
The UNM Art Museum is the largest fine art collection in New Mexico. Look for a new gem each month.
Unknown photographer, Untitled (Émile Zola photographing a doll, Verneuil-sur-Seine), c. 1897, printed c. 1975, Gelatin silver print, 3 x 2-1/8 inches, Gift of Jean Adhémar, 76.47
Guess What?
This month’s highlight celebrates the newly-released book Stories from the Camera: reflections on the photograph, edited by Michele M. Penhall, published by the . The book is composed of essays and plates illustrating and describing many fascinating aspects of the UNMAM photography collection.
A larger copy of the photograph still exists in the collection of the Bibliothèque national de France, one of thirty Zola-related images publish in April 1940 for the 100th anniversary of Émile Zola’s birth.
February 2016’s Highlight
Patrick Nagatani (American, b. 1945), Fin de Siècle, Bat Flight Amphitheater, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, from the series Nuclear Enchantment, 1989, Chromogenic print on Ilfocolor Deluxe paper, edition 2/24, 17 x 22 inches, Museum purchase, Julius L. Rolshoven Memorial Fund, 90.35.2, © Patrick Nagatani, Image courtesy of the Artist
January 2016’s Highlight
December 2015’s Highlight
November 2015’s Highlight
Julius L. Rolshoven (American, ), The Chief (Pablo Suazo), c. 1918, 91-3/4 x 50 inches, Gift of Mrs. Julius L. Rolshoven, 64.25
Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887 – 1986), White Flowers, 1926, Oil on canvas, 12 x 32 inches, Gift from the Estate of Georgia O’Keeffe, 87.21.2
John Loengard (American, b. 1934), O’Keeffe’s Hand with Stone, 1966, Gelatin silver print mounted to card stock, 10-3/8 x 15-7/8 inches, Gift of Ray A. Graham III, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, , © Time, Inc.
