Above: the t-shirt graphics for “McNay Art Museum”, sold in the Museum’s shop.
The Current Entrance to the McNay Art Museum.
The Original Entrance of the McNay’s Home, now the McNay Art Museum.
The courtyard of the original house.
The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, was the first modern art museum in the 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 that are landscaped with fountains, broad lawns and a Japanese-inspired garden and fishpond.
McNay was an American painter and art teacher who inherited a substantial oil fortune upon the death of her father. The museum was named after her, and has been expanded to include galleries of medieval and Renaissance artwork and a larger collection of 20th-century European and American modernist work. She built a home in 1927 designed by Atlee Ayres and his son Robert M. Ayres. Upon her death, the house was bequeathed to the City of San Antonio to house the museum.
The museum focuses primarily on 19th- and 20th-century European and American art by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Mary Cassatt, and Edward Hopper. The collection today consists of over 20,000 objects and is one of the finest collections of Contemporary Art and Sculpture in the Southwestern United States. The museum also is home to the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, which is one of the premiere collections of its kind in the U.S., and a research library with over 30,000 volumes. More recently, the McNay Art Museum added the Stieren Center, built by internationally renowned architect Jean-Paul Viguier, to display their Modern collection.
This Auguste Rodin sculpture, a French artist considered to be the progenitor of modern sculpture, shows the breadth of this collection. It is not encyclopedic, but it covers many continents, many eras and many movements in art history.
On display during the Andy Warhol special exhibition, photographed in June of 2019.
On display during the Andy Warhol special exhibition.
I ❤️Museums tote in the McNay Museum Shop.
“Classic Cars” postcards available in the McNay Museum Shop.
The following are art pieces photographed by ARTS&FOOD® staff at the museum, (with permission from the museum). Consider looking at the art, more than the captions, to enjoy the collection in its own visual language.
Madeline O’Connor, “Cross/Plus” 1998
Northern New Mexico – “Rio Grande Blankets-Rugs”, 1880-1910, Natural & dyed wool w/ some cotton.
Dale Chihuly (w/ James Carpenter), “Roundel”, Glass 1977-78
Georgia O’Keeffe, “From the Plains 1”, 1953
John Alexander, “Feathering the Cultural Nest”, 1986, oil on canvas.
Paul Cézzane, “Houses on the Hill” oil on canvas
Madeline O’Connor, “Cross/Plus” 1998
Raoul Dufy, “Golfe Juan” 1927 oil on panel.
Alberto Giacometti, “Bust of Annette IV” 1962, Bronze
Alice Neel, “Julie and the Doll” 1943 oil on canvas
Diego Rivera, “Delfina Flores” 1927, oil on canvas
Georges Rouault, “The Dancer” 1937, oil on canvas
John Marin, “Movement, Boat, Sea, and Sky Maine” 1944, oil on canvas
John Sloan, “Self Portrait” 1928, oil on panel
Hand-painted tiles inside the house
Henri Matisse, “The Red Blouse” 1936, oil on canvas
Jan Freilicher, “In Broad Daylight”, 1979, Oil on canvas
Jan Gossaert “Portrait of Anna de Bergh, Marquise de Veere”, 1950
Milton Avery, “Portrait of March, the Artist’s Daughter” 1950 oil on panel
Pablo Picasso, “Portrait of Sylvette” 1954, Oil on canvas
Paul Wonner, “Seven Views of the Model with Flowers” 1962, oil on canvas(Detail) Paul Wonner, “Seven Views of the Model with Flowers”
Aristide Maillol, “La Nymphe”, 1930, bronze
Alexander Calder, “Mobile” artist maquette, ca 1930s
David Ligare, “Still Life with Apples and Vessel” 2014
Edward Hopper, “Corn Hill” (Truro, Cape Cod), 1930
Georges Braque, “Glass, Two Apples” 1935, oil on canvas
Hand-painted Spanish tiles inside the house
Jasper Johns, “Savarin Can” 1977-81 lithograph
Marc Chagall, “Dream Village” 1929, oil on canvas
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Lemons and Tea Cup, Cagnes” 1912 oil on canvas
Robert Indiana, “Love” powder-coated steel, original rendering 1970.
Sculptures on The McNay Museum Grounds
(Source: ARTS&FOOD® staff, Photos taken with permission.)
