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A series of seven New Mexico-inspired murals, which the modernist painter Paul Burlin completed in the 1910s, are being publicly exhibited in New Mexico for the very first time.

The works are the heart of the exhibition, 鈥淧aul Burlin: An American Modernist in the Southwest,鈥� which runs through Nov. 29 at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Originally commissioned for art collecting couple George A. Harris and Lillian D. Harris鈥� Renaissance Revival home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Burlin鈥檚 paintings were bequeathed to the couple鈥檚 nephew, Edwin A. Harris Jr., who donated them to the New Mexico Museum of Art decades later, in 2016.

That acquisition was facilitated by the museum鈥檚 former director of curatorial affairs, Christian Waguespack. When Alexandra Terry assumed that role in 2023, she also became responsible for executing Waguespack鈥檚 vision for a Burlin show centered on the murals. Before that could happen, though, work needed to be done.

鈥淭hey had been fairly well preserved, considering they were on display this entire time (over a century), but they needed a lot of conservation work,鈥� Terry said. 鈥溾�� The head of conservation at the Museum Resources Division, Brad Epley, spent an amazing amount of time conserving, cleaning and working to present these pieces for this exhibition.鈥�

With their new facelift, Burlin鈥檚 seven mural paintings are finally being seen in the place that inspired them.

鈥淎 lot of the information I gained in the research for this exhibition came from a book published by the daughter of Paul Burlin, which is no longer in print,鈥� Terry said. 鈥溾�� What I gleaned was that, by spending time with (Georgia O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 husband, Alfred) Stieglitz, he became really interested in the Southwest and decided to come to New Mexico. Spends a little bit of time here, is really impacted, and goes back to New York. So, when the Harrises commission him to make these mural paintings, the first few he makes are these almost cubist-inspired scenes of Pueblo ceremonies and communities along the Rio Grande.鈥�

Burlin moved to Taos in 1913 but soon relocated to Santa Fe.

鈥淗e has a studio at the Palace of the Governors, and he becomes close with our founding director, Edgar Hewett, and ends up exhibiting frequently at the New Mexico Museum of Art, which was the Fine Arts Museum at that time,鈥� Terry said.

Santa Fe is where Burlin met his wife, Natalie Curtis, one of the first ethnomusicologists to document Indigenous music. Curtis also advocated for Indigenous rights, even successfully pursuading President Theodore Roosevelt, a family friend, to lift a decades-old ban on Native American music.

Included in the exhibition is a colored pencil sketch Burlin made of Curtis during the time he was painting the murals.

Burlin followed Curtis as she traveled around New Mexico documenting Indigenous cultures. It was her influence, Terry believes, that shaped Burlin鈥檚 relatively sensitive portrayal of Indigenous communities, particularly in later works in the series, such as 鈥淯ntitled (Southwest Indian Scene),鈥� from around 1917.

After living together in New Mexico for eight years, the couple moved to Paris, where Burlin evolved into an abstract-expressionist painter. So, while the mural paintings do not reflect the artist鈥檚 mature work, Terry believes they are still historically and culturally significant, especially for New Mexico.

Unlike murals or frescoes that are painted directly onto walls, Burlin worked on canvas and mounted his canvases to heavy composition boards shaped to fit the Harrises鈥� walls.

鈥淲e call them mural paintings, but they were basically made to go around the upper quadrant of the walls, kind of kissing the ceiling,鈥� Terry said.

Although the paintings have been restored visually for the purposes of the current exhibition, the museum is considering additional conservation work to remove them from the boards 鈥� some of which are nearly 12 feet long 鈥� and restretch them on regular stretcher bars.

鈥淏ecause the boards are long, they鈥檙e a little unweildy. So, we also had to build very specific frames to hold them, and to keep them safe while they鈥檙e hanging,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t has been a fun sort of experiment in how to conserve objects like this and how to think about the next steps of conservation.鈥�

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