- McNay Art Museum
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Coordinates: 29°29′09″N 98°27′22″W / 29.485776°N 98.456233°W
McNay Art Museum 
Entrance to the original McNay home and museum.
Location of the McNay in TexasEstablished 1950 Location 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., San Antonio, Texas, 
United StatesType Art Museum Director William J. Chiego Curator Rene Paul Barilleaux Website www.mcnayart.org The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1950 in San Antonio, is 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 (9.3 ha) 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.
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 14,000 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 Theater 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 recently added the Stieren Center, built by internationally renowned architect Jean-Paul Viguier, to display their Modern collection.
References
- "A Modern Miscellany: The McNay Art Museum", wsj.com, Nov. 12, 2008
- McNay Art Museum, NY Times listing with review by Frommer
- Marion Koogler McNay, Fine Art Dealers Association
- McNay Press Release
- McNay Press Release
External links
Categories:- Contemporary art galleries
- Art museums in Texas
- Museums in San Antonio, Texas
- 1950 establishments in the United States
- Museums established in 1950
- Modern art museums
- Historic house museums in Texas
- Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Texas
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