Millicent Rogers Museum, Art museum in El Prado, New Mexico, United States.
Millicent Rogers Museum is an art museum in Taos that focuses on Southwestern crafts and artistic traditions. It displays fourteen galleries featuring Native American jewelry, pottery, weavings, baskets, and Hispanic folk art from the region.
Millicent Rogers moved to Taos in 1947 and died there in 1952; her family founded the museum in 1956, initially in a temporary location. In 1968 it moved to a house built by Claude J. K. and Elizabeth Anderson, renovated and expanded in the 1980s by architect Nathaniel A. Owings. In the early 1980s it was the first cultural organization in New Mexico to hold a major collection of Hispanic art.
The museum holds a large collection of pottery by Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, alongside prehistoric and modern ceramics from the region. It also keeps Zuni and Hopi kachina figures, representations of spiritual beings, and Hispanic santos: religious icons painted on flat boards (retablos) or carved in wood (bultos), a form developed in the late 17th century.
The museum sits in El Prado, north of Taos, at 36.44411, -105.59395. It occupies a home built by Claude J. K. and Elizabeth Anderson, renovated and expanded in the 1980s by architect Nathaniel A. Owings. Visitors move through the galleries at their own pace.
The Santos collection features religious wood carvings and paintings that date back to the 1700s and were created in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. These works offer insight into the spiritual art tradition that was honored in the churches and homes of the region.
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