2015 Exhibitions

​Museum collections like the McNay’s are built very carefully by their curators to draw connections between objects, to show the evolution of a particular style or movement, or to give fascinating historical context to individual objects....

​The McNay has a very fine collection of Cubist prints and drawings, including a particularly fine group of etchings and drypoints by Georges Braque. The museum has made a concerted effort in the last few years to add to this strength of the...

Alice C. Simkins’s aunt, the Houston collector and philanthropist Alice N. Hanszen, introduced her to the McNay when she was quite young. However, it was during a museum trip in 1969 to London, Paris, and Madrid, led by founding McNay director...

How did such famous works as Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–81) and George Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte–1884 (1884–86) come into being? The subject of art historical studies, these questions...

​The fourth installation presented in the annual AT&T Lobby series, Stephen Westfall’s The Holy Forest is painted entirely by McNay staff according to the artist’s instructions. Westfall is a painter, writer, and educator based in New York,...

Literature and poetry are constant sources of inspiration for New York-based artist Lesley Dill, who has degrees in English and philosophy.

This exhibition features three complete print portfolios by Carlos Mérida (1891- 1984) from the McNay’s collection.

Drawn from the McNay’s renowned print collection, this exhibition brings together a selection of rarely-seen prints by Käthe Kollwitz and Jose Clemente Orozco.

All the Rage in Paris focuses on Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the company that brought theatre to the center of artistic life in Europe from 1909 to 1929.

"Six Artists Celebrate the McNay’s 60th Anniversary" brings together the work of a half-dozen individuals from San Antonio and the surrounding region for a pop-up exhibition on January 24 and 25, 2015

World War II in Photographs: Looking Back commemorates the 70th anniversary of the war’s end and honors San Antonio’s great military heritage with an exhibition of iconic images by some of the great photojournalists of the time.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art from the personal collections formed by Ailsa Mellon Bruce and her brother, Paul Mellon, and other donors to the National Gallery, Intimate Impressionism is the most extensive exhibition of French...

Focuses on painters and sculptors who also used their talents in the theatre, transforming scene and costume design in the 20th century.