Harold Joe Waldrum (August 23, 1934 – December 13, 2003) was an American artist whose abstract works depict color studies especially of the old adobe churches of Northern New Mexico.

Before pursuing an artistic career, Waldrum graduated from Western State College and became a public school teacher in Kansas, where he taught music and art for a decade-and-a-half.

After receiving a graduate degree from Fort Hays State College in 1970, he became a full-time painter, moving to New Mexico, the focal point of much of his work.

[2] It was here that he began working on a decade-long series of paintings that gave the audience a narrow vantage point of his subject matter, the adobe buildings of the American Southwest.

He did not permanently move back to the state until 1979, when he took up residence in Taos, New Mexico, and worked in the same building that once served as the former studio for Joseph Henry Sharp,[2] part of the Couse/Sharp Historic Site.

[2] In partnership with Jim Heese, he also produced a videotape, documenting the failed efforts to preserve the church located in El Valle.

[9] They also created a series of videos documenting other churches, in Las Trampas and Picuris Pueblo, which were aired in local television channels.

[10] In the 1980s, he also engaged printmaker Robert Blanchard of Albuquerque for assistance in creating a series of aquatint etchings and linocuts based on his abstract depictions of southwestern architecture.

[11] In 1994, he published an autobiography entitled Ando en Cueros (I Walk Stark Naked), perhaps a reference to his propensity for working in the nude.

Many of the "monoprints", as he referred to them, entered the New Mexico History Museum collection by way of a donation from the Waldrum Estate and the Rio Bravo Fine Art Gallery.