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The museum’s extensive collection of Southwestern American art is exhibited on a rotating basis in the Southwestern Gallery. The collection includes western illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton, Frank B. Hoffman, and N.C. Wyeth, and landscapes by Charles Partridge Adams, Albert Groll, W.R. Leigh, and Carl Oscar Borg.
Historic New Mexico art is the collection's strength. Included are works by members of the Taos Society of Artists: Oscar E. Berninghaus, Ernest L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, W. Herbert Dunton, Victor Higgins, Bert Phillips, J. H. Sharp, and Walter Ufer. Other Taos artists include Patrocino Barela, Dorothy Brett, Andrew Dasburg, Nicolai Fechin, and Joseph Fleck. The Santa Fe colony is well represented with works by Gerald Cassidy, Sheldon Parsons, Carlos Vierra, Warren Rollins, Albert Schmidt, and Agnes Sims, and Los Cinco Pintores (Jozef Bakos, Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Willard Nash, and Will Shuster). The collection also contains works by New Mexico artists Pedro Cervantes, Frank Paul Sauerwein, and Peter Hurd.
Artists represented in the museum’s American Indian paintings and prints collection include early San Ildefonso painters Tonita Pena and Romando Vigil; Taos artists Albert Looking Elk and Albert Lujan; early Kiowa painters Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Lois Smokey, and Monroe Tsa Toke; and later Kiowa artists Lee Tsa Toke and Woody Big Bow; Santa Fe Indian School artists Creek/Potowatomi Woody Crumbo, and Navajos Harrison Begay, Andrew Tsinajinnie, and Beatien Yazz; and contemporary artists Allan Houser, Oreland Joe, Harry Fonseca, Carl Gorman, Charles F. Lovato, and Virginia Stroud.
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