Opening October 15 at the Tucson Museum of Art in Southern Arizona is New Mexico Moderns: Selections from the Donald L. and Julia B. Graf Collection.
The exhibition, which will take place in the Lois C. Green Gallery, will present works from a recent gift to the museum that “represent an artistic era marked by abstraction, experimentation, and inspiration from the light, land and cultures of New Mexico.” The works largely center around Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque from the beginning of the 20th century until the early 1970s. 
Emil Bisttram (1895-1976), Rain Over Taos, 1958, watercolor, 16½ x 21½”. Collection of the Tucson Museum of Art. Gift from the Donald L. Graf and Julia B. Graf Revocable Living Trust. 2021.32.5.
Works in the exhibition include a 1965 work from Garo Antreasian, an acrylic work from 1968 by Louis Catusco and a gorgeous Taos watercolor from 1958 by Emil Bisttram. New Mexico is widely known for its development of American modernism, from artists as Western as the Taos Society of Artists to more modern painters such as Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Georgia O’Keeffe. 
The Tucson Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona.The exhibition is presented by the Tucson Museum of Art Contemporary Art Society, while the 2022/2023 exhibition season at TMA is presented by Jim and Fran Allen, Jon and Linda Ender, James and Louise Glasser, and I. Michael and Beth Kasser.
New Mexico Moderns continues through March 19, 2023. —
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