Events - November 7, 2014

Gustave Baumann is one of the most recognized and beloved names associated with the Santa Fe art world in the 20^th century. For more than five decades, beginning in 1918, the internationally renowned printmaker cultivated friendships with other artists that were full of colorful, artistic, humorous and small-town flavor—all of it brought to life in holiday greeting cards they made for one another. With guileless good humor and steady craft, the cards captured the personal lives and preoccupations that encapsulate the memories and spirit of their times.

In Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past, opening November 7, Tom Leech, director of the Palace Press, and guest curator Jean Moss pull from a cache of more than 400 cards donated to the New Mexico History Museum in 2012 by the Ann Baumann Trust. Buttressing the collection are loans from private collectors and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Besides “Gus” Baumann, the exhibit features examples by such New Mexico favorites as Paul Horgan; Olive Rush; Willard Clark; Barbara Latham; Joseph Imhof; Louis Ewing; Will Shuster; Chuzo Tamotzu; B.J.O. Nordfeldt; Ernest and Helen Blumenschein; John Sloan; and Tom Lea. The cards are held at the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.

The Museum of New Mexico Press is publishing a companion book on Oct. 15. Leech will produce a limited-edition Palace Press version of it, using Baumann’s original blocks and paper found in the artist’s Santa Fe studio after his death in 1971.

Palace Press Director Tom Leech and Santa Fe author Jean Moss highlight selections by everyone’s favorite artist-printer at the launch for Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past, a new Museum of New Mexico Press book and a companion to a new exhibit in the Mezzanine Gallery. The exhibit, curated by Leech and Moss, features cards created by Baumann and other notable Santa Fe artists over a 70-year period. Download photos from the exhibit by clicking here.

Free museum admission to everyone from 5 to 8 pm.

Enjoy free refreshments and flute duets by Mary Linda Gutierrez and Susan de Jong for the public opening of Hunting + Gathering : New Additions to the Museum’s Collection 5:30-7:30pm.

Join the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography for a fun-filled evening of hors d’oeuvres and wine as the museum highlights new acquisitions to the permanent collection. Call 505.982.7799 ext. 1  for more information. To become a FOCA+P member, click here.

Recently acquired works by artists Ansel Adams, Gustave Baumann, Woody Gwyn, Betty Hahn and many others will be on view in Hunting + Gathering: New Additions to the Museum’s Collection. The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Friday, November 7, 2014, from 5 to 7 p.m. with a free public reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico. The exhibition runs through March 29, 2015.

Hunting + Gathering presents a sampling of artworks that have entered the Museum’s collection since 2010.

Did you miss Stephen Fried’s standing-room-only Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture on Oct. 29? He’s agreed to give a repeat of it at noon on Friday, Nov. 7, in the History Museum Auditorium. (Note: Seating is limited.) Author of the best-selling biography, Appetite for America, Fried speaks on “Fred Harvey, the Hotel Castañeda, and the Future of the Past in Railroad New Mexico.” Fried is an expert on the legacy of Fred Harvey and his many Harvey Houses, including the soon-to-be-renovated Hotel Castañeda in Las Vegas, NM.

The lecture is free and open to the public.