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Jun 6, 2017
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
New Deal Art and Architecture in Santa Fe
A Guided Tour of Hidden Depression-Era Treasures

New Mexico History Museum

New Mexico was one of the top recipients of funding from New Deal agencies during the Great Depression.  Many of the physical products of these back-to-work programs lie hidden in our own back yard.  On June 6, we’ll explore the vaults, private offices, and back hallways of buildings funded by New Deal programs, and view seldom seen art made by New Deal artists.

In the morning we’ll search the storage rooms of the New Mexico Museum of Art, the largest single repository of New Deal art in the state.  Other stops include the New Mexico History Museum and its WPA-era furniture, bultos, and retables, the William P. Henderson murals at the Federal Courthouse, the old county courthouse building designed by John Gaw Meem, and the old municipal building, now the Santa Fe Public Library.

After a three-course lunch at Osteria D’Assisi, we’ll board an open air tram to visit New Deal buildings at the New Mexico School for the Deaf and the New Deal art collection in the Superintendent’s residence, the New Mexico Supreme Court building with its 1930s art collection, and the National Park Service’s Old Santa Fe Trail Building, built by the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps. 

Kathy Flynn, Executive Director of the National New Deal Preservation Association will lead the tour, and curators and historians will join us to tell the stories of New Deal programs at the various stops. 

The tour fee is $85 for Friends of History Members and $95 for non-members,  Priority is given to Friends of History Members.  The fee includes a $10 tax-deductible contribution to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, a three-course lunch at Osteria D’Assisi, and the tram price.

The tour is limited to 25 participants, so please sign up early by calling Andrea Chavez at 505.476.5101


This is a members only event. Find out how to join the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.



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