The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s permanent collection highlights the Southwest US and region’s surrounding the New Mexico boarders. The museum also offers a variety of fine art and historical materials that chronicle specific local areas.

Included are early modernist works from the Santa Fe and Taos art colonies by Jozef Bakos, Ernest Blumenschein, Andrew Dasburg, Stuart Davis, Fremont Ellis, Marsden Hartley, William Penhallow Henderson, Robert Henri, Victor Higgins, Raymond Jonson, John Marin, Walter Mruk, Georgia O’Keeffe and Will Shuster.

The collection offers the most significant public collection of the important regional artists Henriette Wyeth, Howard Cook and Peter Hurd who explored the landscape of southeastern New Mexico.

In addition to a large variety of modern works, the works of art include unique examples of hand-crafted furniture and decorative objects primarily made by Hispanic craftsmen for the Federal Art Project.

For more information visit the The Roswell Museum and Art Center web site.