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The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in the U.S. state of Texas.The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-room Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion that sits on 23 acres (9.3 ha) that are landscaped with fountains, broad lawns and a Japanese-inspired garden ...
Marion Koogler McNay (7 February 1883 – 13 April 1950), was an American painter, art collector, and art teacher who inherited a substantial oil fortune upon the death of her parents. She later willed her fortune to be used to establish San Antonio's first museum of modern art , which today bears her name . [ 2 ]
Matthew McLendon (born 1977) is an American museum director, art historian, and curator of modern and contemporary art. McLendon serves as Director and CEO of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. [1]
TX – San Antonio – McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; TX – University Park – sculpture is near a small pond at Williams Park (located on Turtle Creek, east of Preston Road on University Boulevard) in University Park, Texas; UT – Provo – Brigham Young University Museum of Art in Provo, Utah
Plaza of the Presidents, National Museum of the Pacific War. The list of museums in Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Their 2023 exhibition, Post-Columbian Futurism, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, deployed an intermixture of Indigenous, Mexican and American cultural icons to address issues of over-consumption within these cultures. [6] In the same year they created a large scale lobby installation at the McNay Art Museum. [7]
Slick was an avid collector of modern art. His collection was surveyed by the McNay Art Museum with an exhibition and catalogue titled Tom Slick: International Art Collector . Death
The exhibition was curated by Cortney Lane Stell for Black Cube a Nomadic Art Museum. [15] In her essay for the Staniar Gallery catalogue Adriana Corral's Unearthed: Desenterrado , Stell notes that the cotton references the fields around the Rio Vista Farm, where cotton was grown and harvested by braceros.