Public New Deal Art Tours

Visit the historic McKinley County Courthouse and public library in downtown Gallup, NM with an expert guide to time travel to the 1930/40s.

Explore New DEal architecture, murals, decorative arts, and paintings to dig into the development of New Mexican visual identity and the origins of Native American painting.

Tour details

  • Free to the public. No registration required.
  • Last Saturday of every month
  • Tour starts at 1:30 PM in front of the historic McKinley County Courthouse.
  • Tours are approximately one hour long and the route is a total of three or four city blocks in distance. Tours are partly outside, but mostly inside.
  • ADA accommodations are available.

Contact us with questions

  • info@gallupnewdealart.org
  • (720) 218-4712

2026 Dates

Saturday, January 31

Saturday, February 28 

Saturday, March 28

Saturday, April 25

Saturday, May 30

Saturday, June 27

Saturday, July 25

Saturday, August 29

Saturday, September 26

Saturday, October 24

The Gallup New Deal Art Public Tour program is made possible in part with support from McKinley County.

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Art Collection

Gallup’s New Deal art collection consists of over 120 objects created, purchased, or donated from 1933 to 1942 through New Deal federal art programs administered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support artists during the Great Depression.

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View and search all 120+ objects in the collection.
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Facts & Figures
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History
Trace the origins and evolution of the collection.
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Themes
Browse by theme: landscapes, history paintings, Native cultures, and more.
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Art Exhibits

The Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum features three types of exhibits, combining traditional and non-traditional approaches to illuminate academic, creative, and individual understandings.

Special Exhibits
Take an expertly curated deep dive into southwestern and New Mexican art history.
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Creative Perspectives
Explore creative responses to the Gallup New Deal Art collection from contemporary artists, writers, poets, historians and educators.​
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Do-it-yourself
See how visitors like you have interpreted Gallup’s New Deal art and hang your own virtual gallery wall of artworks from the collection.
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Artists

Gallup’s New Deal art collection includes works by a demographically, professionally, and stylistically diverse group of named and unnamed artists.

Meet the Artists
Meet the collection’s 30 named artists and learn more about why some artists were not credited by name.
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Professional Backgrounds
Discover the roots of the collection’s artists, who came from a variety of schools, movements, and philosophies.
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New Deal Involvement
Learn about the New Deal art programs' approaches to ethnic and economic diversity.
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Artists as Workers
Dig into the nuts and bolts of New Deal art programs' employment practices.
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interactive Timeline of Gallup
By way of historic photos, time travel back to Gallup's founding in the 1880s and survey the town's development through the New Deal period in the 1930-1940s.
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Visitor Map & In-Person Tours
Get information on how to see Gallup's New Deal art in person through self-guided and guided tours.
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About Gallup
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Teacher Resources
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Lesson Plans
Download free lesson plans for K–12 grade levels.
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