Impressions | Summer 2018

May August 2018

IMPRESSIONS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Tom Frost Chairman Toby Calvert President Harmon W. Kelley, MD Vice President Carolyn Jeffers Paterson Secretary Kirk Saffell Treasurer Graciela Cigarroa John W. Feik Don Frost Walton Vandiver Gregory John C. Kerr Rick Liberto J. David Oppenheimer Harriett Romo, PhD George F. Schroeder Amy Stieren Smiley Lucille Oppenheimer Travis

The American Alliance of Museum Directors (AAMD) Mid-Winter Meeting Closing Party on the Blackburn Patio, January 30, 2018.

From the Director

EDITOR Daphne Lehman

CONTRIBUTORS Richard Aste René Paul Barilleaux Katherine Carey Rebecca Dankert Jacqueline Edwards Heather Ferguson Heather Lammers Daphne Lehman Therese McDevitt Julie McGarraugh Elda Silva Lyle Williams

SPECIAL THANKS Richard Lehnert Soleil Advertising

Great artists often help us see the familiar in new, unexpected ways—so do great museums. Along those lines, this spring we very proudly present The McNay Reimagined, the culmination of our transformative yearlong reinstallation. Our galleries now cut across time, place, and medium. If you’re a longtime fan of the Museum, your old friends are back, but now in new contexts and new conversations. The McNay Reimagined was made possible by a gifted team of curators, educators, designers, and preparators who together realized this vision. We extend profound thanks to them and to our Board of Trustees for their tremendous support throughout the reinstallation. We also thank our members and visitors for their patience during the transition. It was a major undertaking, but the Museum is once again a model of artistic excellence and community impact.

Beyond The McNay Reimagined, this June we bring you Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations.

Featuring four immersive environments created by four artists—Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Philip Worthington (U.K.), Andy Warhol (U.S.), and a new commission by our own community’s Chris Sauter—this exhibition takes the McNay’s commitment to transformation to another level. But as we look ahead, we also look back through the prism of San Antonio’s Tricentennial and the 50th anniversary of HemisFair ’68, the first and only World’s Fair to be held in our city. HemisFair ’68: San Antonio’s World’s Fair will offer a unique perspective on the genesis of an event that transformed the Alamo City a half century ago. We also look back on an era of change through the lens of photographer Manuel Carrillo in Mi Querido México, an exhibition of 25 black–and–white images of rural communities in postrevolutionary Mexico from the Bank of America Collection.

We look forward to welcoming you back to a reimagined Museum built on the pioneering vision of an artist originally from Ohio but who, like so many of us, quickly called San Antonio home. The McNay has defined and redefined excellence in Texas ever since.

McNay Art Museum 6000 North New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209 210.824.5368 phone mcnayart.org

Yours most sincerely,

Richard Aste, Director, and Toby Calvert, President of the Board of Trustees

Richard Aste Director

EMERITUS TRUSTEES

Immersed Local to Global Art Sensations..................................................... 4

Fragments of a Dream.................................................................. 7

Dario Robleto Ancient Beacons Long for Notice............................................... 7

100 Years of Printmaking in San Antonio Bill Reily.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................................................................. 8

Curt Anastasio Laura Bertetti Baucum Steve Blank J. Bruce Bugg Jr. Jonathan C. Calvert Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD Barbara Seale Condos Raye B. Foster Betty Murray Halff Marie M. Halff Sarah E. Harte Joan Buzzini Hurd Jane Stieren Lacy Peggy Pitman Mays Bill McCartney Charline McCombs Connie McCombs McNab Barbie O'Connor Brad Parman Allan G. Paterson Jr. Ethel Thomson Runion Thomas R. Semmes Alice C. Simkins Joe Westheimer

HONORARY TRUSTEE Mrs. Nancy B. Negley

Manuel Carrillo Mi Querido México.. . . . . . . . . .................................................................. 8 HOURS

HemisFair ’68 San Antonio’s World’s Fair. . ............................................................. 9

Captain Seth Eastman’s Journey with a Sketchbook New Orleans and the Gulf.............................................................. 9 The McNay Reimagined.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................................................

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Philip Worthington, Shadow Monsters, 2004–ongoing. Java, Processing, BlobDetection, SoNIA, and Physics software. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Weiss Law Accessions Endowment Fund, 2016.156.

Photograph by Carrithers Studio / Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Akosua Adoma Owusu, Still from Intermittent Delight, 2007.

Courtesy of Obibini Pictures LLC. Dario Robleto, American Seabed, 2014. Fossilized prehistoric whale ear bones salvaged from the sea, various butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched and pulled audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row,” concrete, ocean water, pigments, coral, brass, steel, and Plexiglas. Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas. Photograph by Jason Dowdle.

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Bill Reily, Soda (detail). Etching and drypoint with hand-coloring.

Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Libby Oppenheimer, 1999.55.

Manuel Carrillo, Mujer y niño desde arriba (Woman and child from above) (detail), 1961. Gelatin silver print. Bank of America Collection. Courtesy of the University of Texas at El Paso Library, Special Collection Department. © Charles R. Rushton.

Robert Indiana, Study for Viva HemisFair (detail), 1967. Collage and graphite on board. Collection of The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund. © Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Seth Eastman, Pilots' Houses, Southwest Pass, Mouth of the Mississippi River, October 1848, from Sketchbook, 1848–49.

Graphite on paper. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Pearl Brewing Company, 1961.5.66.

Sunday Noon–5 pm Monday Closed Tuesday 10 am–4 pm Wednesday 10 am–4 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm Friday 10 am–4 pm Saturday 10 am–5 pm Closed New Year’s Day, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. During Daylight Saving Time, grounds are open 7 am–7 pm.

During Standard Time, grounds are open 7 am–6 pm.

ADMISSION McNay Members FREE Children 12 and under FREE Teens FREE Adults $20 Students with I.D. $15 Seniors (65+) $15 Active Military $15 During FREE times, a $10 special exhibition fee applies for entrance to Immersed.

On H-E-B Thursday Nights (4−9 pm) and First Sundays of the Month, entrance to Main Collection Galleries is FREE. FREE FIRST SUNDAYS is made possible by generous support from Dickson-Allen Foundation.

FREE admission for teens 19 and under provided by the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation of the San Antonio Area Foundation.

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June 7 | September 2

Immersed

Local to Global Art Sensations Organized in conjunction with the San Antonio Tricentennial celebrations and the 50th anniversary of HemisFair ’68, this exhibition focuses on San Antonio as a place of deep history, local values, and global thinking. Immersive, environmental installations by Yayoi Kusama and Philip Worthington, a film

by Andy Warhol, and a new commission by San Antonio’s Chris Sauter transform the McNay’s Tobin Exhibition Galleries.

Internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (2009), cover image, immerses the viewer in an enclosed, mirrored, seemingly infinite space. A constellation of lights brightens into the expanse, only to slowly fade back into darkness so that the cycle can begin again. The work asks viewers to think about not just placement in local or global settings, but in the entire universe. Kusama’s vision of a better society through creativity, and dedication to creating objects and environments that unite and heal, is itself a mirror to San Antonio as the city reflects on its 300-year history.

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British artist Philip Worthington’s Shadow Monsters (2004), pictured above, turns visitors into fantastical beasts.

Worthington’s immersive space transports viewers to the realm of their own imaginations, recalling childhood play and creativity. Made possible by innovative uses of technology, Shadow Monsters actively engages audiences and speaks to the positive potential of art in the digital age. As San Antonio looks back on the past 300 years, its own myths and legends are highlighted. Worthington’s installation questions how the past has been represented and retold through oral, written, and visual traditions, and encourages new ideas about the future.

Andy Warhol’s Sunset, an unfinished short film from 1967, honors the significance of HemisFair ’68 in San Antonio, and provides a meditative environment in contrast to the other installation spaces within Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations. For HemisFair ’68, John and Dominique de Menil were invited to

coordinate the Vatican’s pavilion for the fairgrounds. In 1964, in an effort to combine spiritual transcendence and art, the de Menils approached fellow Roman Catholic Andy Warhol to create a new work for the space. However, the plans for the pavilion were never carried out, and Warhol abandoned his part of the project—a film featuring a static shot of the sun setting, with a voice reciting lines of poetry on the soundtrack. With the screening of the film at the McNay, Warhol and the de Menils’ vision will, for the first time, and half a century after its creation, be on view in the city of its intended premiere.

Finally, in an installation created exclusively for Immersed, San Antonio artist Chris Sauter explores links between biology and culture, the present and the primordial, the personal and the universal. Using architecture as raw material, Sauter carves into the walls to retrieve materials needed to build other objects, as a way to reveal aspects of the natures of those materials and objects. Stay tuned for exciting new details about this developing masterpiece!

This exhibition is organized by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs, for the McNay Art Museum. Funding to date for Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations is most generously provided by Frost Bank Charitable Foundation and Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Director’s Circle and the Exhibition Host Committee, chaired by Anna and Todd Wulfe.

Above: Andy Warhol, Sunset, 1967. 16mm film, color with sound, 33 minutes. © 2018 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Below: Chris Sauter working on his installation for Immersed, titled Pleasure Principle, 2018.

At left: Philip Worthington, Shadow Monsters, 2004–ongoing. Java, Processing, BlobDetection, SoNIA, and Physics software. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Weiss Law Accessions Endowment Fund, 2016.156.

Photograph by Carrithers Studio / Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Immersed: Reservation Information Museum membership or admission includes entry to all the installations in Immersed. Timed reservations for all visitors, including members, are required. Members have first access to reservation slots at mcnayart.org, and the first right to reserve a space when new time slots open in the summer.

Please visit mcnayart.org for more information.

In addition to her work in visual art, film, and fashion, Yayoi Kusama is a published poet and novelist. She has also written a memoir, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama.

Andy Warhol’s Sunset, an unfinished short film from 1967, was commissioned for the Vatican pavilion at HemisFair ’68, but the plans for the pavilion were never carried out, and Warhol abandoned his part of the project.

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G LOW !

10th Annual McNay Spring Party Friday, June 8, 8 pm–midnight | Tickets: $95 each Immerse yourself at the McNay in a neon evening of interactive experiences! Play with light, sound, and taste inspired by Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations. Visit mcnayart.org for tickets and more information.

Philip Worthington created his installation Shadow Monsters, a high–tech take on Victorian and Asian shadow play, for an interactive design course at London’s Royal College.

Chris Sauter cut out 1,740 discs from the ceiling and walls of his installation and used them to make 15 models of dopamine molecules to be featured in his work.

Yayoi Kusama, Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009. Wood, metals, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic paint, and LED lighting system. Edition 3/3. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Weiss Law Accessions Endowment Fund, 2016.34. © Yayoi Kusama. Photography by Carrithers Studio / Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

May 8 | September 9

Fragments of a Dream Akosua Adoma Owusu’s 2007 video Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a 1960s Westinghouse commercial intended to teach women how to decorate a refrigerator. The video touches on the idea of feminism’s uneven geographical and historical development, and the nuances of the labor conditions that women face, depending on where they live. Owusu’s video is complemented by artworks by African American artists drawn from the McNay’s collection.

This exhibition is organized by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs, and Jacqueline Edwards, Assistant Curator, for the McNay Art Museum. Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Akosua Adoma Owusu, Still from Intermittent Delight, 2007. Courtesy of Obibini Pictures LLC.

June 28 | September 23

Dario Robleto

Ancient Beacons Long for Notice Dario Robleto: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice is the McNay’s first major presentation of artworks by Dario Robleto, a San Antonio native best known for his installations of carefully collected and crafted objects.

Robleto’s assemblages are meditations on love, death, mourning, and American history, reinforced through the artist’s passion for astronomy, biology, and psychology. For example, Robleto’s American Seabed (2014) is the result of his interest in sound and its physical manifestations. The sculpture comprises a wide variety of objects, including fossilized whale ear bones salvaged from the sea. This exhibition offers viewers an opportunity to see works from throughout the artist’s career, and helps contextualize his most recent endeavors. Dario Robleto currently lives and works in Houston, Texas, and in 2016 was appointed the Texas State Artist Laureate.

This exhibition is organized by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs, and Jacqueline Edwards, Assistant Curator, for the McNay Art Museum. Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Dario Robleto, American Seabed, 2014. Fossilized prehistoric whale ear bones salvaged from the sea, various butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched and pulled audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row,” concrete, ocean water, pigments, coral, brass, steel, and Plexiglas. Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas. Photograph by Jason Dowdle.

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April 12 | July 1

100 Years of Printmaking in San Antonio Bill Reily This second of four exhibitions dedicated to significant San Antonio printmakers is organized in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the city’s founding. Bill Reily (1930–2014) was born and bred in San Antonio, and in the 1950s and ’60s became one of Texas’s most important modern painters and printmakers. He also had a long history with the McNay, having known Marion McNay since childhood as his “Aunt Marion.” The exhibition includes a rarely seen painting commissioned by the McNay’s founding director, John Palmer Leeper, as well as jewel-like intaglio prints by Reily from the Museum’s rich collection.

A video interview with artist Chris Sauter, whom Bill Reily taught during his 37 years as a member of the faculty of the University of the Incarnate Word, gives further insight into Reily’s vivid imagination and rigorous creative process.

This exhibition is organized by Lyle Williams, Curator of Prints and Drawings, for the McNay Art Museum.

Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Bill Reily, Soda. Etching and drypoint with hand-coloring. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Libby Oppenheimer, 1999.55.

May 17 | September 2, 2018

Manuel Carrillo Mi Querido México

Manuel Carrillo: Mi Querido México (My Beloved Mexico) features 25 enchanting and evocative photographs from the Bank of America Collection. Known as El Maestro Mexicano (The Mexican Master), Carrillo (1906–1989) is celebrated for his endearing black-and-white images of indigenous Mexico. Distinct in their formal compositions, with dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, Carrillo’s photographs focus on the expressions of his subjects as well as on the everyday beauty of rural communities in postrevolutionary Mexico.

This body of work illustrates Carrillo’s masterful ability to capture the mood of his home country in an era of cultural transformation and an evolving national identity. The success of Carrillo’s photographs lies in his approach—one of deep sensitivity and compassion—to his proud and humble subjects. Images of dignified campesinos (farmers), men in huaraches (sandals), women draped in rebozos (shawls), and children playing with their four-legged companions function as records of the human spirit and embrace the very notion of Mexicanidad.

This exhibition is provided by Bank of America Art in Our Communities Program. Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Manuel Carrillo, Mujer y niño desde arriba (Woman and child from above), 1961. Gelatin silver print. Bank of America Collection. Courtesy of the University of Texas at El Paso Library, Special Collection Department. © Charles R. Rushton.

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May 3 | July 29

HemisFair ’68

San Antonio’s World’s Fair HemisFair ’68 was the first and only World’s Fair to be held in San Antonio, Texas. The six-month celebration was proposed by local business leaders to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city’s founding, and the shared cultural heritage of San Antonio and its Latin American neighbors. Demanding years of planning and coordinated investment, the Fair required massive commitments of time and energy from the people involved.

The McNay partnered with UTSA Libraries Special Collections to present this unique exhibition, organized in celebration of the 50th anniversary of HemisFair ’68 and of San Antonio’s Tricentennial. Highlighting artists and designers who contributed to the Fair, HemisFair ’68: San Antonio’s World’s Fair features small selections of artworks, architectural drawings, conceptual site plans, costume and graphic designs, ephemera, souvenirs, and audiovisual materials, including film and sound recordings, that document the early planning for HemisFair ’68.

This exhibition is organized by Heather Ferguson, former Archivist for the McNay Art Museum, with Amy Rushing, Head of Special Collections for UTSA Libraries. Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Robert Indiana, Study for Viva HemisFair, 1967. Collage and graphite on board. Collection of The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund. © Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

April 5 | July 1

Captain Seth Eastman’s Journey with a Sketchbook New Orleans and the Gulf

This second of four exhibitions devoted to one of the McNay’s historic gems—the sketchbook kept by Captain Seth Eastman (1808–1875) during his trip to Texas in 1848 and 1849—follows the artist from Vicksburg to Natchez, Mississippi, and from New Orleans to the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana. Highlights of this leg of the journey are views of sugar plantations, detailed studies of New Orleans’s architecture and riverbank, and a group of masterful drawings of oceangoing sailing ships at anchor in the mirrorlike waters of the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

This exhibition, part of the McNay’s celebration of San Antonio’s 300th anniversary, includes an interactive digital map that enables visitors to follow Eastman’s journey and to learn more about the places and things he discovered and recorded along the way.

This exhibition is organized by Lyle Williams, Curator of Prints and Drawings, for the McNay Art Museum. Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Seth Eastman, Pilots' Houses, Southwest Pass, Mouth of the Mississippi River, October 1848, from Sketchbook, 1848–49.

Graphite on paper. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Pearl Brewing Company, 1961.5.66.

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THE McNAY Re!magined The McNay Reimagined is a new way of thinking about the beloved works of art in the McNay collection. The curatorial staff has worked together to approach the Museum’s collection in an entirely different and nontraditional way, looking for timeless themes to create the gallery installations.

In the Halff Gallery, visitors can see a selection of works from the Museum's collage and assemblage collection including our masterpiece by Picasso. Dating from 1912, it is considered among the first fine art collages.

On the second floor, the focus is on narrative work—art that tells stories. In the Oppenheimer Galleries, the imagery is based on religious, or spiritual faith, while in the Hamon Galleries, the works depict dreams or surreal visions, and power and heroes.

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Ground–level main collection galleries are all about people, places, and things. Visitors explore landscapes in the Large Lang Gallery, come face to face with portraits in the Zoch Gallery, and contemplate still lifes in the Dining Room.

The more intimate Zilker Gallery highlights seascapes and rural scenes, and the Mays Gallery focuses on abstracted nature, while the Small Lang Gallery explores figurative abstraction.

Every one of the galleries includes: Works from different periods.

For example, you’ll find Renaissance portraits alongside modern works.

Works of different mediums and genres in conversation with each other.

“21st–century moments” including works by video artists.

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THE McNAY Re!magined

Museum News

A Celebration!

For the ninth consecutive summer, the McNay participates in the Blue Star Museums initiative, offering free admission to all activeduty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. In appreciation of the sacrifices made by military families, the McNay and more than 2,000 other museums across America encourage the U.S. military community to take advantage of the rich cultural heritage they defend and protect. Free admission for up to five immediate family members is available with presentation of military I.D. The Blue Star Museums initiative involves a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families, along with the American Alliance of Museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors, the Association of Children’s Museums, and the American Association of State and Local History. MetLife Foundation has provided leadership support through Blue Star Families.

On Friday, March 23, the entire Museum was alive with food, drink, and entertainment as the McNay celebrated the reinstallation of the permanent collection galleries and honored donors to the Fund for Exhibitions and Education. At every turn, guests had a different curated experience that left them wondering what was around the next corner. The McNay is most grateful to lead sponsor The Tobin Endowment, along with the McCombs Foundation, Dorothea Oppenheimer, and Valero, for underwriting a very memorable evening.

LEAD SPONSOR

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The Tobin Endowment

Holly and William Beinhorn Alison and Taylor Boone Rita and John Feik Katy and Ted Flato Chris Hill Erik Linstrom—JP Morgan Securities Sue and Bob McClane The Jesse and Susan Oppenheimer Foundation Andrea and Karl Pichler Judy and George Schroeder Lucille and Jim Travis Alice and Sergio Viroslav

MAJOR UNDERWRITERS McCombs Foundation Dorothea Oppenheimer Valero

THE FUND FOR EXHIBITIONS AND EDUCATION Platinum Barbara Condos Emma and Rene Farret Frost Bank Sarah E. Harte and John S. Gutzler Luther King Capital Management Trudy and Ed Moore Barbie and Toby O’Connor L.D. Ormsby Charitable Foundation, Inc. Gail and Bruce Smith Amy Stieren

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Rental Opportunities Entertain your guests in style and give them the chance to view an internationally renowned art collection during your private event. Choose between the sleek, modern Stieren Center for Exhibitions or the historic main collection building to make any wedding reception, rehearsal dinner, corporate cocktail party, or celebration unforgettable.

Joanie and JR Hurd Susan and John Kerr Rick Liberto The John Newman Charitable Foundation

Bronze Graciela Cigarroa—Ford Foundation Colette and Ty Edwards Marie Halff Bonnie and John Korbell Alice C. Simkins Smothers Foundation Christy Williams—Sotheby’s Wendy Wirth C. Thomas Wright

EVENT CHAIRS Emma and Rene Farret Walton and Claiborne Gregory

IN-KIND Capers Destination Management— Event Services Luxe Event Decor

The large and small Lang Galleries, with seating for up to 80 guests, are now available to rent for your next life event or business dinner. Please consider this exclusive dining experience for a small wedding reception, or for a birthday or anniversary celebration. Businesses can entertain clients, or host a special evening for their employees. The Lang Galleries fit perfectly with the Blackburn Patio for entertaining your guests during cocktail hour.

For pricing and availability, please call 210.805.1782 or email rentals@mcnayart.org. To view the McNay’s Special Events brochure, please visit mcnayart.org/rentals.

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Event chairs Claiborne and Walton Gregory & Emma and Rene Farret with Director, Richard Aste and his partner, Max Goodman.

The past year has seen many exciting successes for our Education Team!

THE McNAY โ ค DANCE! A flamenco flash mob, the Samuel Clemens Buffalo Steppers, and dancers from the San Antonio Folk Dance Festival all performed at the Museum this spring. Spring Break Family Days also included a Daily Dance Studio with custom dance floor by artist Raul Gonzalez.

3,082 VISITORS played at the McNay during Spring Break Family Days.

ยกMONDO POR NEARLY 300 STUDENTS from Davis Middle School (SAISD) visited the McNay for a special tour and performance of the one-man show York, about an enslaved man and member of the Corps of Discovery (the Lewis and Clark expedition).

THE McNAY STANDS WITH EDUCATORS! The Circa 1900 Art and Humanities Resource launched in 2017. The Circa 1900 Teacher Fellows stand with Rosemary Hickman, Semmes Foundation Education Manager.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING! Visitors shared survivor stories and their first job, day job, and dream job during the exhibition Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too.

VIDA! Hosting Project Runway alum Mondo Guerra on the eve of World AIDS Day was a dream come true for the Museum.

1,500 PARTICIPANTS served at Harlandale ISD STEAM (Science Technology Engineering ART & Math) Nights.

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Stieren Center Celebrates 10 Years When the Stieren Center for Exhibitions opened in June 2008, the then-new wing, designed by renowned French architect JeanPaul Viguier, nearly doubled the size of the McNay Art Museum with 45,000 square feet of floor space.

The unveiling of the sleek, modern structure topped off what was, at the time, the largest fundraising campaign for a cultural project in San Antonio’s history. Under Director Emeritus William J. Chiego, the Museum raised a total of $50.8 million, including $31 million for constructing and furnishing the building. Jane Stieren Lacy and Arthur T. Stieren led the effort with a gift of $7 million. Jane Stieren Lacy also donated $3.25 million for the Chiego Lecture Hall.

This summer, the Museum marks the 10th anniversary of the Stieren Center. Starting with American Art Since 1945: In a New Light, the inaugural exhibition in the Tobin Exhibition Galleries, a number of landmark shows have been presented in the space.

Among the exhibitions that stand out for René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs, are George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective, from 2008, which utilized both the galleries and the Museum grounds; Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune, from 2012, which drew crowds to see works drawn from the collections of the Andy Warhol Museum, in Pittsburgh; Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, from 2014–2015, which comprised nearly 70 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings; and Chuck Ramirez: All This And Heaven Too, from 2017, the first major survey devoted to this artist from the San Antonio community.

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In addition, the Stieren Center has made it possible to increase the scale of projects, in terms of the size of the exhibitions and the numbers of objects presented. A great example is American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, an exhibition planned for early 2019, which features eight classic cars, including a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette, along with works by artists including Willem de Kooning, Robert Indiana, and Joan Mitchell.

The Stieren Center has not only changed the kind of programming the Museum is able to present, but the way the Museum itself is perceived.

“The public associates a contemporary structure with a forward–thinking, future–focused museum,” Barilleaux said.

Membership Giving Director’s Circle as of February 28, 2018

$25,000 and above Mr. and Mrs. Tobin R. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Tom C. Frost Jr. Mrs. Betty Murray Halff Ms. Marie Halff Mr. and Mrs. Houston H. Harte Ms. Sarah E. Harte and Mr. John S. Gutzler Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Hurd Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kerr Jane and Bill Lacy Peggy and Lowry Mays Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. O’Connor III Mrs. Frederic J. Oppenheimer Carolyn and Allan Paterson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Semmes Ms. Alice C. Simkins The Tobin Endowment The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund

Leadership Members as of February 28, 2018

Philanthropist: $10,000 and above Mr. Charles Butt Mr. Thomas M. O’Connor Ms. Amy Stieren

Benefactor: $5,000 and above Margaret Anderson and Bill Crow Mrs. Walter F. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Tobin R. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dicke II Ms. Laurel Douglass Mr. and Mrs. John Feik Mrs. and Mr. Rita Feik H. Rugeley Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Don Frost Christopher C. Hill Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Hurd Dr. and Mrs. Harmon Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Sandy McNab Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. O'Connor III Claire O. O'Malley Mr. and Mrs. J. David Oppenheimer Mrs. Susan Oppenheimer Mr. and Mrs. Allan G. Paterson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Richardson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George Schroeder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Semmes Mr. and Mrs. John E. Smothers Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Spigel Mr. and Mrs. James H. Travis Mr. and Mrs. Ted Welsh

Sponsor: $2,500 and above Mr. and Mrs. Rowan Altgelt Mr. and Mrs. Curt Anastasio Mr. and Mrs. William D. Balthrope Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cheever Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Paul Gould

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamilton Dr. and Mrs. Jay H. Heizer Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hendry III Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hixon Mr. and Mrs. H. Glenn Huddleston Mr. and Mrs. Michael Humphreys Erika Ivanyi and Matthias Schubnell Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Kirksey Dr. Uwe Pontius Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Saffell Alice C. Simkins Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Smith Mrs. Louis H. Stumberg Courtney J. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Westheimer Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Wirth

Associate: $1,500 Drs. Lindsey and Clifford Alprin Ms. and Mr. Margaret Anderson Ann Griffith Ash Mrs. Sam Barshop Drs. Maryan and Otis Baskin Mr. and Mrs. Steve Blank Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bodine Margaret Corning Boldrick Alison and Taylor Boone Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Brown Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ronald K. Calgaard James S. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Mrs. Barbara Christian Chumney Barbara S. Condos Dr. and Mrs. Charles Du Val Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Fitzsimons III Ms. Judi Free Susan Toomey Frost and Craig Bunch Mr. and Mrs. Curtis C. Gunn Jr. Mr. Paul Hamborg Dr. P. Allen Hartsell Drs. M. Norma and John D. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Graham B. Knight Kim Lewis Kathleen McGrail Ann and Jim McMullan Mr. and Mrs. David Meriwether Mr. and Mrs. Stuart D. Moiles Mrs. Virginia Nicholas Oak Park Cleaners, LP—Raymond and Jacqueline McClellan Mrs. Jane Cheever Powell Ethel T. Runion Mr. and Mrs. William Scanlan Jr. Penelope Speier and Edward E. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Curtis T. Vaughan III Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Watson Jr. Mrs. Barbara Wulfe Dr. Elly Xenakis

Corporate Partners as of February 28, 2018

Benefactor: $5,000 and above Argo Group, Inc. Bank of America Cram Roofing Co., Inc. Lucifer Lighting Company

Educational: $5,000 and above Alamo Colleges Trinity University University of the Incarnate Word

Sponsor: $2,500 and above Luther King Capital Management

Associate: $1,500 and above Bolner's Fiesta Products, Inc. Ford, Powell & Carson, Architects and Planners, Inc. Kamo Energy, Inc. North American Development Bank

Business Partner: $1,000 and above Advanced Wood Floors Anne Zanikos Art Conservation Porter Loring Mortuaries

Business Partner: $500 and above Crossvault Capital Management, LLC Hamlin Capital Management, LLC Service Mechanical Group, Inc.

Honoraria

July 1, 2017–February 28, 2018 Kate Carey Dr. Coleen Grissom Jane Dreyfus Judy and Seymour Palans Dianna Hopkins Insperity Services, L.P. Tom and Pat Semmes Mr. and Mrs. Clifford S. Waller

Memorials

July 1, 2017–February 28, 2018 Mrs. Renate M. Beebe Robert W. Beebe Laurie Cerratani Teri and Sandy Holtzclaw-Seymour Joan Clapp Dr. Judith L. Martin Dr. and Mrs. John C. Russell Mr. Michael A. Daigle McNay Docent Council William B. Jordan Mrs. and Mr. Paula Peacock Michael R. Maloy McNay Docent Council Mr. William J. McClusky Dr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Miller Cheryl D. McNierney Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kittle McNay Docent Council Muriel F. Siebert Muriel F. Siebert Foundation Richard Teitz Dr. and Mrs. William J. Chiego McNay Docent Council Joan McGuire Mellard Voigt Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Webb Mr. Charles T. Wright Gloria P. Arecchi Laura Baucum Kathleen McGrail Dr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Miller Sherry S. O’Kelley Elsie Steg Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Westheimer Jr. Margaret L. Ziperman Dr. and Mrs. William J. Chiego

In Memoriam William B. Jordan An early protégé of our founding director, John Palmer Leeper, Bill Jordan was an internationally recognized scholar of Spanish Baroque painting. He had a distinguished career as the Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum, and as the founding director of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. He died in Dallas on January 22, 2018.

C. Thomas Wright Long a patron of the McNay, Tom Wright died at his home on January 29, 2018. A stalwart and enthusiastic champion of the Museum, he epitomized the familial relationships within the McNay community that have bolstered and enriched the Museum over the years.

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Cover: Yayoi Kusama, Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009. Wood, metals, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic paint, and LED lighting system.

Edition 3/3. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Weiss Law Accessions Endowment Fund, 2016.34. © Yayoi Kusama. Photograph by Carrithers Studio / Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

IMPRESSIONS a members magazine

Ayala Bar Trunk Show Saturday, June 9 10 am–3 pm Tisha Mackey will represent international designer Ayala Bar’s Spring and Summer 2018 jewelry collections.

Oropopo Leather Jewelry Freshen up your summer wardrobe with a piece of Oropopo leather jewelry

by Albuquerque designer Karole Mazieka.

These contemporary, sculptural pendants, neckpieces, and earrings, created from leather, are perfect accessories to a summer ensemble.

Infinity Room In the spirit of Yayoi Kusama’s installation inside of Immersed, the Museum Store will be carrying garlands of mirrors and fun strings of twinkling lights, along with fiber-optic candles and sprays that can be charged through a USB port. Immerse yourself in your own installation.

NEW DOCENT CLASS What’s your Curiosity Quotient?

Docents are curious people. If you’re interested in art, like learning, love the McNay Art Museum, and enjoy talking with students, you may be a docent in the making. The McNay is accepting applications for the 2018–2019 docent class. To find out more, email education@ mcnayart.org, or drop in on a docent-led tour, held the first and third Sundays of each month at 3 pm.