W. Eugene Smith portrait of John Gaw Meem [picture]. [1940-1960]

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W. Eugene Smith portrait of John Gaw Meem [picture]. [1940-1960]

This collection contains one portrait of John Gaw Meem, architect, taken by photographer W. Eugene Smith at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1 photographic print : black & white ; 11 x 14 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7715127

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Meem, John Gaw, 1894-1983

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The original objective of the interview was a survey of the early development of the Santa Fe art colony and the personalities who made it famous. The interviewer is unidentified. Interviewees include renowned architect, John Gaw Meem; Will Shuster, painter and founder of Los Cinco Pintores, Santa Fe's first modernist art group; and Karl Larsson, Swedish immigrant, silversmith, and painter-teacher. From the description of Oral history interview with John Gaw Meem, Will Shuster, and K...

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

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Since its official opening in 1953, the Museum of International Folk Art, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, has sought to collect, preserve, interpret, and present material folk culture from all parts of the globe. It has developed notable collections of textiles, costumes, Spanish Colonial art, contemporary Hispanic crafts of the Southwest, and Latin American folk art. From the description of New Mexico Northeast Sector Overview Project survey, 1984- 1985. (Museum of New Mexico Li...

Smith, W. Eugene, 1918-1978

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Photojournalist; d. 1978. From the description of Papers, 1910-1978. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28410501 Architect John Gaw Meem, best known for a style of architecture known variously as "Santa Fe style," "Spanish-Pueblo style," or "Pueblo Revival." John Gaw Meem was involved with the Historical American Buildings Survey (HABS) in the 1930s and after retiring in 1959 continued to pursue an interest in historic preservation of New Mexico buildings. ...