Gustave Baumann: The Artist's Environment

Gustave Baumann: The Artist’s Environment

Museum: New Mexico Museum of Art
Exhibition Dates & Locations:

• Finding His Way: Beauregard Gallery | July 18, 2025 – February 22, 2026

• An Artist by Accident: New Wing | August 15, 2025 – February 22, 2026

• Home is Where the Heart Is: Clarke Gallery | September 26, 2025 – February 22, 2026

• A Rolling Stone: Goodwin Gallery | September 26, 2025 – January 19, 2026

This comprehensive retrospective celebrates the beloved Santa Fe artist Gustave Baumann, best known for his enchanting woodblock prints. Organizing his enormous legacy of prints, paintings, sculpture, drawings, marionettes, and furniture thematically, the exhibition provides a nuanced study of how he engaged with New Mexico’s physical, cultural, and artistic environment. It explores his relationship to southwestern archaeology, cross-cultural inspirations, modernist aesthetics, nature, and his role in shaping the region’s artistic identity, offering a deep look at the artist’s process and enduring vision.

For museum hours, admission prices, and more details, please visit the New Mexico Museum of Art’s official website.

Gustave Baumann, Green Dragon, circa 1940, suede, leather, painted wood, red silk, cordage, metal loops and string, 7 1/2 x 47 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Jane Baumann, 1978 (1994.16.17). © New Mexico Museum of Art.

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