Willa Cather's best-known novel is an epic — almost mythic — story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the Southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, …
Join Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, on the first Tuesday of December for a discussion of New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. This major traveling exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of art in New Mexico, from …
In 1917 Mabel Sterne (Mabel Dodge Luhan), patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of …
On the second Sunday of the month, explore your creative side in a fun and informal drawing session. Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in the exhibition New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. …
Enjoy a special evening at the Museum with dinner, drinks and a big screen showing of the 1950 classic “Rio Grande,” the third film in famed director John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy.” $55 per person; $50 per Museum member. Reservations are closed, for questions contact education@nationalcowboymuseum.org.
Relax from the stresses of the holidays! Visit the Museum for a Holiday Wine-Down painting class under instruction from Wine & Palette. Inspired by still-lifes in the exhibition, New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West, create your own still-life masterpiece. $45; $40 for Museum members. All supplies provided, includes light …
Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. Each week there will be a different still life to draw within the exhibition space. Study from the artists of …
The Santa Fe Trail was the first international superhighway in the United States, connecting Missouri to Mexico through Santa Fe and down to Chihuahua. While we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first traders from the U.S. traveling west to Santa Fe via the trail in 2021, Spanish — then Mexican — traders had been …
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Oatman’s story has become legend, inspiring artworks, fiction, film and radio plays. …
This four-week class will focus on a better understanding of the foundation and proportions of the face. Learn and practice the key locations that build the facial structure — the key to creating better portraits and capturing a likeness. Explore the best of the Reilly and Loomis methods and the technique of Hogarth to develop …
