The America of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton
May 29 | September 8, 2013, Lawson Print Gallery
Organized as a complement to the Norman Rockwell exhibition, this show, drawn entirely from the McNay’s collection, features about 20 prints by American lithographers Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and others. The emphasis is on artists who focus their attention on American subjects rather than European prototypes. Many of the prints in the exhibition have not been on view in over 20 years.

Printing Perfection: The Art of Beth Van Hoesen
May 29 | September 29, 2013, Butt Paperworks Gallery
This exhibition features a selection of more than 20 prints and drawings by California artist Beth van Hoesen, recently acquired as gifts of the artist’s estate. Van Hoesen, a close colleague of fellow Bay Area artist Wayne Thiebaud, was a brilliant draftsman and prolific printmaker whose work is representational and figurative. Her subjects were often portraits of friends, landscapes, and intricate animal studies. With a line similar to Thiebaud and David Hockney, van Hoesen’s prints and drawings reveal a debt to both Pop and Op art.

Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera
June 5 | September 1, 2013, Tobin Exhibition Galleries
A natural storyteller, Norman Rockwell envisioned his scenarios down to the smallest detail. Yet at the easel he rarely painted directly from his imagination. Rockwell commissioned thousands of photographs as studies for his iconic images. When Rockwell adopted photography in the late 1930s as part of his working process, he called on friends and neighbors to bring new flesh-and-blood realism to his work. Their cooperative enthusiasm and unassuming tolerance for his demands enabled the artist to capture nuances more spontaneous than any professional model could deliver. The book Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera accompanies the exhibition and was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2009.
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Catherine Lee: Alice
Opening August 2013
The second in a series of long-term wall works presented in the McNay’s AT&T Lobby, Catherine Lee’s Alice is an expansive installation consisting of 105 red glazed raku ceramic elements and named for her mother. The ensemble, recalling archaic forms, symbolizes five generations of her family.

Costuming the Stage: Artists from the Tobin Collection
September 4, 2013 | January 5, 2014, Brown Gallery
Costuming the Stage explores how designing for live theatre is different from designing for film. The exhibition focuses on drawings and costumes by several of the most important designers of the past half century, representing different approaches to costuming the stage. Featured artists include: Eugene Berman, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Desmond Heeley, and Peter J. Hall. Costume drawings from the Tobin Collection are complimented by costumes borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera, the Stratford Festival, and other theatre and opera companies in North America.
This exhibition was organized by the McNay Art Museum and is a program of The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund.

The Nightmare Before Christmas
September 4, 2013 | January 5, 2014, Tobin Theatre Arts Gallery
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), a cross between Clement Moore’s poem and Hollywood horror movies, is a landmark in film animation. The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts at the McNay includes a selection of about a dozen artifacts used in the making of the stop-action film including Jack Skellington’s tower; Lock, Shock and Barrel’s clubhouse; Oogie Boogie, and the One-Armed Bandits.

C. Thomas Wright: Patron and Collector
September 25, 2013 | January 12, 2014, Lawson Print Gallery
This presentation of works on paper is from the avid collector and longtime supporter of the McNay, San Antonian Tom Wright. For decades, Wright’s collection has developed alongside that of the museum. It, therefore, beautifully complements the McNay’s prints and drawings collection. The exhibition includes everything from nineteenth century works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard to contemporary print suites by Richard Tuttle and James Siena.

Regarding Ruscha
October 9, 2013 | January 19, 2014, Butt Paperworks Gallery
One of the masterpieces of the McNay’s post-1960 American print collection is an artist’s proof of Ed Ruscha’s iconic screenprint Standard Station, acquired by the Friends of the McNay in 1976. In 2012, the Friends made possible the purchase of Ruscha’s latest iteration of this classic image, Ghost Station, a molded paper print created at Mixografia in Los Angeles in 2011. This exhibition is our audience’s first opportunity to see these two works side-by-side. Joining the two Ruscha prints is a group of graphic works created by contemporary San Antonio artists in response to Ruscha’s enduring and distinctly American iconography.

CUT! Costume and the Cinema
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 | Sunday, January 19, 2014, Tobin Exhibition Galleries
Step into the exciting world of costume design through more than 40 period garments. Discover how clothing sets the scene and establishes authenticity in films. Perfectly crafted costumes uncover clues about a character’s status, age, class, and wealth, along with establishing the role in the story. The films represented in the exhibition depict five centuries of history, drama, and comedy with period costumes worn by film stars Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, Ralph Fiennes, Angelica Huston, Keira Knightley, Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet, and many others. In all, more than 30 actors from 27 films, including Sherlock Holmes; Academy Award winner The Duchess; and perennial favorites Pirates of the Caribbean, Sense and Sensibility, and The Phantom of the Opera, are featured.
The exhibition tour is organized by Exhibition Development Group, USA in cooperation with Cosprop, Ltd., London, England.

ARTMATTERS 15: Rosalyn Schwartz
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 | Sunday, January 19, 2014, Tobin Exhibition Galleries
The fifteenth presentation in the McNay’s series focusing on contemporary art, this exhibition brings together paintings, collages, and objects by Illinois-based Rosalyn Schwartz. Schwartz’s work finds inspiration in décor, interior design, and art history, juxtaposing representational and abstract imagery with decorative motifs and patterns, and often asking the viewer to consider questions of accepted style and personal taste. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated gallery guide.