Impressions | Spring 2019

January | April 2019

IMPRESSIONS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Toby Calvert President Harmon W. Kelley, MD Vice President Carolyn Jeffers Paterson Secretary Kirk Saffell Treasurer Graciela Cigarroa Brooks Englehardt John W. Feik Don Frost Walton Vandiver Gregory John C. Kerr Rick Liberto J. David Oppenheimer Corinna Holt Richter Harriett Romo, PhD George F. Schroeder Amy Stieren Smiley Bruce A. Smith Lucille Oppenheimer Travis Alice B. Viroslav, MD

From the Director This past year was one for the record books. In the spring we presented Something to Say, the first major survey of African American art organized by the McNay. We broke attendance records with our blockbuster summer exhibition Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations. And last fall, with Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art, we co-created Pop América, 1965–1975—the world’s first truly inclusive, Pan-American approach to Pop, and a fitting commemoration of San Antonio’s first world’s fair, HemisFair ’68, on its 50th anniversary.

The year 2018 was also a profoundly meaningful one for every member of the Museum’s family.

We said goodbye to our late Chairman, past President, and lifetime Trustee, Tom Frost, who helped shepherd the McNay and establish its rightful reputation as a citywide oasis of tranquility, beauty, innovation, and inclusion. Thanks to Mr. Frost, our community has come to expect all this and more from their McNay experience. Also thanks to him, the Museum is now a special place where our community can come together, fall under the spell of beauty and truth, and leave changed, even transformed.

So in 2019 we will honor Mr. Frost’s brilliant legacy by leaning in to the culture of innovation and inclusion he worked tirelessly to build in San Antonio, right here at Texas’s first museum of modern art. In the year ahead, we will continue to think outside the box, expand our narratives, reach new audiences, and speak directly to the backgrounds, cultures, and interests of more San Antonians than ever before. This spring, we will rev up the year of innovation with American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, the world’s first exhibition to boldly pair two magnificent examples of high American design. (Please don’t miss the very first glimpse of American Dreams at our annual gala on Friday, February 8, chaired by Rick and Suzanne Cavender and Don and Lou Celia Frost.) Art museums across the country are expanding traditional definitions of art and artistic excellence, and thanks to American Dreams, modern and contemporary art at the McNay will now include sculpture in steel—and on four wheels—as true reflections of innovation in postwar American design. As a direct result of this shift, we will proudly welcome many first-time visitors to our beloved institution.

In 2019 we will also take inspiration from Mr. Frost’s commitment to inclusion by presenting Estampas Chicanas, a stunning exhibition of prints by Chicana artists who are too often overlooked.

Later next summer, the McNay will host the country’s first celebration of contemporary American artists who bravely construct identity through gender and its many outward appearances. And throughout the year, we will take our late Chairman’s commitment to inclusion beyond our walls and across our campus, as we physically open up the McNay to every member of our community.

Tom Frost was kind, strategic, and blessed with a remarkable sense of humor. His moral leadership was a constant source of strength and inspiration for everyone at the McNay. We will therefore honor his remarkable life by embracing his vision of innovation and his mission of inclusion for the Museum—to engage a diverse community in the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts.

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

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

Richard Aste Director

The McNay Art Museum engages a diverse community in the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts.

EMERITUS TRUSTEES

American Dreams Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Auto Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Cande Aguilar barrioPOP.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................................................................. 6

Estampas Chicanas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Curt Anastasio Laura Bertetti Baucum Steve Blank J. Bruce Bugg Jr. 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

Van Gogh to Munch Seduction and Anxiety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 HOURS As of September 4, 2018

America on Stage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Anastasia Pelias: mama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Dario Robleto Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

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ADMISSION

Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

McNay members FREE Children 12 and under FREE Teens 19 and under FREE Adults $20 Students with I.D. $15 Seniors (65+) $15 Active Military $15

Tributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Membership Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 From top: Robert Indiana, The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortenson (detail), 1967. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin, 1999.94. © Morgan Art Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Judy Baca, Absolutely Chicana (detail), 2002. Screenprint.

Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Harriett and Ricardo Romo, 2013.25. © Judith F. Baca.

During FREE times, a $10 special exhibition fee applies for entrance to the banner exhibition.

Larry Mills and Grace Locke, Unity (detail), 2015. Steel cans with paper. Collection of Larry Mills.

Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Dr. Gachet (detail), 1890. Etching.

Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay, 1980.19.

On H-E-B Thursday Nights (4−9 pm) and First Sundays of the Month, entrance to Main Collection Galleries is FREE.

Cande Aguilar, Land of Peace (detail), 2007. Oil, acrylic, oil stick, fabric paint, spray paint, and found object on panel. Courtesy of the artist.

Douglas Schmidt, Scene design for Grease (detail), 1972. Collage on board with acrylic, ink, and varnish. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin, 1999.287.

FREE FIRST SUNDAYS is made possible by generous support from Dickson-Allen Foundation.

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February 14 | May 19, 2019 Tobin Exhibition Galleries

American Dreams

Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings

Organized by the McNay, American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings explores the ingenuity and innovation of postwar America. This period, known as America’s Golden Age, witnessed the explosion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and Op art; the mass production of automobiles; and increased wealth and consumerism. The exhibition presents 10 classic cars as modern sculpture, alongside paintings from the McNay’s collection and select loans.

Characterized by exaggerated tailfins, wraparound windshields, and generous chrome detail, these classics of the 1950s and 1960s were called dream cars. From a rare 1948 Tucker Torpedo—one of only 51 Tuckers ever made—to the beloved 1963 Chevrolet Corvette, a pinnacle of vintage ’Vette design, many of the cars on view pushed design boundaries through expansive volume, nontraditional color combinations, and highly styled flourishes. Additional highlights include a 1957 Pontiac Star Chief convertible with missile-shaped side trim, and a 1956 DeSoto Firedome sporting factory colors of pink and iridescent plum. Classics restored to factory-correct interiors and exteriors are joined by several restoration-modification (“resto-mod”) cars, most notably the Spurs Camaro restored and generously lent

by Larry Mills, Executive Vice President, Holt Companies, San Antonio.

Abstract paintings from the McNay’s collection include strong representation of women artists, including Judith Godwin, Grace Hartigan, Dorothy Hood, and Joan Mitchell, alongside their male contemporaries Sandu Darie, Friedel Dzubas, Hans Hofmann, Ralph Humphrey, George McNeil, Larry Rivers, Theodoros Stamos, and Frank Stella. Pop pictures by Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Ed Ruscha—some on loan for the exhibition—illustrate the movement. Op paintings include a striking oil by Edna Andrade, a monumental work by Larry Poons, and a pulsating acrylic painting by Julian Stanczak. Together, these artworks represent key developments in American art just after World War II and through the 1970s.

American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings is organized by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs; Kate Carey, Head of Education; and Jackie Edwards, Assistant Curator.

Funding to date is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions. Additional support is provided by the Director’s Circle and the Exhibition Host Committee, chaired by Linda and Larry Mills.

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Clockwise from top left: Tucker Torpedo, 1948. The Richard L. Burdick Collection. Photo by Trent Sherrill.

Robert Indiana, The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortenson, 1967. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin, 1999.94. © Morgan Art Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Chevrolet Camaro, 1969. Collection of Larry Mills.

Chevrolet Corvette, 1963. Collection of Gary Mills.

Adjacent page: Edna Andrade, Space Frame C, 1965. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters through the Childe Hassam Fund, 1968.13. © Estate of Edna Andrade.

Friedel Dzubas, Untitled, 1959. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with the Ralph A. Anderson Jr. Memorial Fund, 2006.74.

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November 15, 2018 | March 17, 2019 Patio Gallery

Cande Aguilar barrioPOP

South Texas–based artist and musician Cande Aguilar brings his distinctive barrioPOP style to the McNay this fall with an immersive installation featuring large-scale paintings, collages, and digital video elements. Inspired by graffiti and street art, popular culture, and border politics, Aguilar’s vibrant artworks reflect the artist’s experience of living and working in the Rio Grande Valley.

Cande Aguilar: barrioPOP is part of For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative, a nonpartisan, nationwide campaign to use art as a means of inspiring civic participation.

This exhibition is organized for the McNay Art Museum by Jackie Edwards, Assistant Curator. Lead funding is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Cande Aguilar, Land of Peace, 2007. Oil, acrylic, oil stick, fabric paint, spray paint, and found object on panel.

Courtesy of the artist.

January 17 | May 5, 2019 Butt Paperworks Gallery

Estampas Chicanas One of the great myths about such important social developments as the Chicano labor movement is that they are progressive on all fronts. However, many Chicana women, especially Chicana artists, have been excluded. This exhibition focuses solely on Chicana artists, many of whom have had to fight to make their voices heard. The artworks in this exhibition, all generous gifts of Harriett and Ricardo Romo, include works by Judy Baca, Patssi Valdez, Barbara Carrasco, Ester Hernández, Alma López, and others.

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

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

Judy Baca, Absolutely Chicana, 2002. Screenprint. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Harriett and Ricardo Romo, 2013.25. © Judith F. Baca.

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January 9 | May 12, 2019 Frost Octagon

Auto Show Auto Show, organized in connection with American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, presents artworks whose primary subjects are cars and car culture. The exhibition also includes a newly commissioned video work by New York– and San Antonio–based film editor Christopher Branca, which explores images of cars in mid-century Hollywood.

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

Larry Mills and Grace Locke, Unity, 2015. Steel cans with paper.

Collection of Larry Mills.

February 14 | May 5, 2019 Lawson Print Gallery

Van Gogh to Munch Seduction and Anxiety

The end of the 19th century gave rise in Europe to heightened anxiety about the future.

This anxiety, coupled with greater exploration of sexuality and the human psyche, led to the creation of psychologically charged and complex art. Some artists, such as the Symbolist Charles-Marie Dulac, turned to Catholicism in their work to suggest a way forward; others, such as Paul Gauguin, sought deeper human truths in faraway cultures seemingly unspoiled by the progress of industrialization. This exhibition traces the development of art focused on the inner world of the human mind, from Vincent van Gogh’s penetrating portrait of his last medical doctor, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, to a claustrophobic brothel interior by Edvard Munch.

Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Dr. Gachet (detail), 1890.

Etching. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay, 1980.19.

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

March 21 | June 30, 2019 Brown Gallery and Tobin Theatre Arts Gallery

America on Stage From the windswept plains of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! to the densely packed apartments of New York City’s Washington Heights in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, America remains a source of inspiration and subject for many landmark musicals, plays, ballets, and operas. Drawn from the renowned Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, America on Stage celebrates the uniquely diverse work of 20th- and 21st-century American designers on stages at home and abroad.

This exhibition is organized for the McNay Art Museum

by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs, and Timothy Retzloff, Tobin Theatre Arts Fund Curatorial Assistant. This exhibition is a program of the Tobin Theatre Arts Fund.

Douglas Schmidt, Scene design for Grease, 1972. Collage on board with acrylic, ink, and varnish. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin, TL1999.287.

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Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass Jeanne and Irving Mathews, whose family owned Frost Brothers, a Texas high-fashion retail chain, began collecting Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass at Paris flea markets in the 1960s, on buying trips for the store. What began as a hobby soon turned into a passion for the couple. Over three decades of active collecting— beginning at a time when few people were interested in French art glass of the late 1800s–early 1900s—the Mathews developed one of the finest collections in the United States, along with a formidable library on the subject.

Jeanne Lang Mathews stopped collecting glass on the death of her husband, in 1994. She bequeathed their collection of more than 150 examples of art glass to the McNay, where it complements paintings, theatre designs, and other works of that fin de siècle era. Now, for the first time, the Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass is installed together in a gallery dedicated to the collection. The Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass is on view in the Brown Sculpture Pavilion.

This installation is organized for the McNay Art Museum by Heather Lammers, Collections Manager & Curator. Funding is most generously provided by the Jeanne Mathews Art Glass Fund. Additional support is provided by Harold J. Wood and John O’Brien.

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Anastasia Pelias: mama New Orleans native Anastasia Pelias presents a monumental sculpture immersed in a painted landscape, the installation commissioned by the McNay for the Museum campus.

Pelias’s artworks span painting, drawing, video, sculpture, and installation, and are united through a cultural identity that combines her birthplace, Louisiana, and her ancestral roots in Greece. Installed by the artist, mama is at once a temporal artwork, an homage to Pelias’s family history, and a site for quiet contemplation.

Image courtesy of the artist and JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dario Robleto Acquisition On the occasion of Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, Dario Robleto’s recent, highly praised exhibition at the McNay, the Museum acquired Sundials, More Loyal to the Moon (2016).

The first work by this San Antonio native to enter the collection, the artwork bridges many scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, cardiology, oceanography, paleontology, and psychology, to disciplines within the humanities. Over the past decade, Robleto’s unique combination of curiosity and empathy—and a firm belief that art can and should make a difference in the world—have led him in diverse, unorthodox directions.

Similar to other sculptures by the artist, this one comprises a wide range of materials, including seashells, butterfly wings, paper, powder pigments, beads, and Plexiglas, all meticulously transformed by Robleto into a dazzling assemblage. The exhibition, seen by over 25,000 visitors, included two other works from this series.

Dario Robleto, Sundials, More Loyal to the Moon, 2016. Various cut and polished seashells, urchin spines, white tusks, squilla claws, spirula shells, butterfly wings, cut paper, colored powder pigments, colored plastic beads and glitter, acrylic domes, print on paper, brass rod, colored and mirrored Plexiglas, glue, painted wood. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with the Victor and Peggy Barton Creighton Charitable Trust, 2018.29.

View & Vote At the annual View & Vote acquisition event, the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum (MCCF) selected two works to purchase for the Museum’s collection: Robert (2007), by James Gobel; and Dedicated to La Duquesa de Alba/Black Alba (2004), by Yasumasa Morimura.

James Gobel begins his process with photographs and proceeds to make drawings in pencil and yarn, then composes a mosaic of felt pieces. When viewed from a distance, Robert, which references Giovanni Battista Moroni’s The Tailor (Il Tagliapanni) (1565–70), could easily be mistaken for an oil painting, but on close inspection reveals the warm, fuzzy texture of felt.

Through extensive use of props, costumes, makeup, and digital manipulation, Yasumasa Morimura masterfully transforms himself into recognizable subjects, often from the Western cultural canon. In this artwork, a self-portrait, the artist draws reference from Francisco de Goya’s painting of María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba.

Both acquisitions premiere in the McNay’s summer 2019 exhibition Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today.

James Gobel, Robert, 2007. Felt, yarn, thread, and acrylic on canvas.

Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum, 2018.32.

Yasumasa Morimura, Dedicated to La Duquesa de Alba/Black Alba, 2004. Chromogenic print, mounted on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum, 2018.33. © Yasumasa Morimura.

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2019 McNay Art Museum Gala

Dining with the Masters

American Dreams Friday, February 8, 2019 7 pm–midnight

Join Gala Co-Chairs, Suzanne and Rick Cavender and Lou Celia and Don Frost, and McNay Director Richard Aste, for an exclusive preview of the exhibition American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, which explores the ingenuity and innovation of postwar America. Dining with the Masters: American Dreams will be a fabulous evening of cocktails, and dinner with the sensational TEMPTATIONS REVUE FEATURING NATE EVANS to close out the evening! For more information, visit mcnayart.org, or call 210.805.1761 to purchase your table or ticket.

YOU COULD WIN THIS!

1953 Chrysler New Yorker Taxi The McNay is excited to announce a fundraising raffle in conjunction with American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings. Visit the exhibition (February 14–May 19), then enter to win this classic 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Taxi, on display for the run of the show. Tickets are $10 each. For more information, visit mcnayart.org or call 210.805.1794. All proceeds benefit the McNay Art Museum.

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2019 McNay Print Fair Leeper Auditorium Saturday, March 2, 10 am–5 pm Sunday, March 3, noon–5 pm

Now in its 23rd year, the McNay Print Fair is still the only event of its kind in our state and region. More than a dozen dealers from all over North America will bring literally thousands of works of art for show and sale during this two-day public event. Participating dealers will have something for every taste and budget, from old master prints to contemporary drawings and photography. It’s a great opportunity for our community to learn from respected dealers, share in the pure joy of looking at art, and perhaps go home with a newfound discovery.

Over the years, the McNay Print Fair has placed high-quality art in the homes of our community, providing us with a solid and growing collector base. We look forward to welcoming you to our 23rd annual event!

Second Thursdays Second Thursdays at the McNay, a free event featuring art, music, food, and drinks, have become a beloved community tradition. Each month from March through November, the McNay features live local talent, exhibition tours, and family-friendly activities. General admission to the Museum is free on Thursdays, thanks to H-E-B, and the galleries are open until 9 pm.

Bring your own picnic blanket or lawn chair and enjoy an evening on the grounds of the Museum. Pets on leashes are always welcome. Save the dates in 2019 for Second Thursdays at the McNay! March 14 April 11

Matchbox Car Race, Band: Elnuh—Indie dream pop Paper Portraits, Band: The Foreign Arm—Indie soul

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Membership

Membership Subscriptions Now Available Monthly membership subscription options are now available for all General Membership levels. Additionally, Family Plus membership level and above now provide benefits for up to three (3) cardholders!

Individual: $6.50/month Dual/Family: $10/month

Members-only Events As a Member of the McNay Art Museum, you receive exclusive access to the McNay and our special exhibitions! Save the dates of these upcoming Members-only events:

NEW Family Plus: $15/month Contributing: $28/month Sustaining: $60/month

To see details of these new options, visit mcnayart.org/join.

JANUARY 13

Pop América, 1965–1975 Member Last Look 6–8 pm

NEW Benefits for Patron Circle and Visionary Circle

FEBRUARY 13

American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings Member First Look noon–4 pm

FEBRUARY 13

American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings Member Preview Reception 6:30–8:30 pm

Highlights include: Opportunity for two (2) to participate in national travel with a curator Invitation for two (2) to area gallery, artist studio, and private collection visits One private tour with a McNay staff member Private tour with Texas museum directors of temporary exhibitions

APRIL 3

American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings Patron Gallery Talk 6:30–8:30 pm

MAY 19

American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings Member Last Look 6–8 pm

New benefits are determined by your Membership level. More details of all new benefits are available at mcnayart.org/join/patron-circle and mcnayart.org/join/visionary-circle.

NEW Director’s Circle Membership Level Highlights include: Private dinner with McNay Director for six (6) guests in the collection galleries, by appointment Private dinner with Distinguished Lecture speaker and McNay Director for two (2) Exclusive national and international travel opportunities with the McNay Director during your active membership. Examples of national and international trips include: – Art Basel (Miami Beach, December 2018) – Frieze (Los Angeles, February 2019) – Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy, June 2019) – New York City art-shopping trip with McNay Director and Curator, spring 2019 For more details, visit mcnayart.org/join/visionary-circle.

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Member Spotlight

Mary and Kurt Wagner—Members since 2015 IMPRESSIONS:

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

KURT:

Well, we’ve been married for 51 years now. And we’re both retired, and we’ve lived in various parts of the country, and we find San Antonio to be the nicest.

IMPRESSIONS:

How do you feel about the art in the McNay?

MARY:

It is wonderful. It’s surprising. You never know what you’re going to find around the corner. You think you’re going to see one thing, and there’s something else that says, “Look at me!” “Take a picture!” “Try it yourself!”

KURT:

I grew up in New York City, so I’m used to seeing artwork at the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art. I would say that, on a smaller scale, the art you have here at the McNay is every bit as good.

IMPRESSIONS:

What would you tell someone who’s considering becoming a McNay Member?

KURT:

There are a lot of benefits, a lot of programs that we enjoy, and they are well worth coming to and seeing.

MARY:

Watch the calendar so you don’t miss anything. The ArtFULL Wednesdays are wonderful. We have art on the wall, framed, that we did on the ArtFULL Wednesdays.

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Tributes Jonathan C. Calvert Jonathan C. Calvert, of San Antonio, Texas, Emeritus Trustee of the McNay, passed away peacefully at dawn on August 23, 2018, surrounded by his family. A man who missed few sunrises or sunsets, Jonathan was born April 25, 1930, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the third of four sons born to James Henry and Carolyn Rice Calvert.

He attended the San Antonio Academy and Texas Military Institute, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University. A former Marine, he entered the investment business, and worked in New York City and Chicago before returning to Texas. He loved his community, and enjoyed serving on the Boards of the McNay Art Museum and Saint Mary’s Hall, and marching with the Texas Cavaliers. At the McNay, Jonathan served on various committees and chaired the Development Committee. An avid photographer, he beautifully documented his many global adventures over the course of his long life; a selection of his photographs of South America was recently on view in the McNay exhibition Picturing Latin America. Jonathan was indeed a self-described “adventurer”—after developing a passion for mountain climbing at the relatively late age of 37, he spent his last 50 years exploring remote corners of the world, and enthusiastically shared many of his favorite climbs and trips with his daughters, his grandchildren, and his beloved wife and equally fearless co-adventurer, Betty. A devoted family man, Jonathan also maintained a close friendship with his first wife, the longtime McNay supporter Margaret Corning Boldrick.

Scholar, businessman, rancher, artist, and adventurer, Jonathan Calvert was defined by his fearlessness, his quiet humor, and his great strength of character, and he will be remembered for his generosity to the McNay. In his autobiography, The Urge to Know, Jonathan described himself as “a relatively ordinary man who lived an extraordinarily full life.” That account of his adventures will continue to inspire his family and friends to live life in the extraordinary way he did: deliberately, willfully, and with insatiable curiosity. “Do not be afraid to fail,” he wrote, “because if you are, you will be afraid to risk. And if you are afraid to risk, then you will miss out on some of life’s greatest experiences.”

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Thomas “Tom” C. Frost Thomas “Tom” C. Frost, of San Antonio, Texas, Chairman and lifetime Trustee of the McNay, passed away on August 10, 2018, surrounded by his family.

A civic, economic, educational, and spiritual force in South Texas throughout his long life, Tom was born to Thomas Clayborne Frost and Ilsé Herff Frost on October 29, 1927, in San Antonio. He attended the San Antonio Academy and Texas Military Institute, served in the US Army, and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Washington and Lee University, in Virginia, with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. He returned to Texas and began a career at his family’s bank, starting in the mailroom and moving up to the president’s office by age 34, to become the fourth generation of Frosts to lead Frost Bank. Tom married Patricia “Pat” Holden Frost, and together they welcomed into the world four sons, 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. A man of great faith, he served Christ Episcopal Church for over 80 years, in addition to leading development activities in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. Equal to Tom’s faith was his belief in the power of education to enrich and transform lives across our community.

Tom joined the Board of Trustees of the McNay Art Museum in 1971, filling the vacancy left by his father. (Tom’s great-uncle Joseph H. Frost had been the first Frost to join the McNay Board, and was among the seven original Trustees named in Marion Koogler McNay’s will to establish the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. Tom’s son Don Frost today continues the family tradition of serving on the McNay Board.) From 1971, Tom served as the McNay’s Treasurer, Vice President, President, and ultimately Chairman, in that last role leading the Museum through what was then the most ambitious capital campaign for a San Antonio artsand-culture organization.

“My father was proud of his family’s involvement with the McNay—the first modern-art museum in the State of Texas—and he always boasted that the McNay has been primarily funded by private resources since its inception,” said Don Frost. “Dad understood the importance of the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts, and the Museum’s capacity to educate our diverse community. Thanks to his great efforts, the McNay has a strong foundation from which its Director and Board of Trustees can expand its influence and citywide outreach.”

The McNay thrives today because of Tom Frost. We will honor his legacy here by bringing beauty, tranquility, and inspiration to each and every member of our community.

Membership Giving Visionary Circle as of October 31, 2018

Director’s Circle $25,000 The Tobin Endowment The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund

Philanthropist $10,000 Mr. Charles Butt Thomas M. O'Connor Ms. Amy Stieren Smiley

Benefactor $5,000 Mrs. Walter F. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Tobin R. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dicke II Douglass Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Englehardt Mr. and Mrs. John Feik H. Rugeley Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Don Frost Mr. and Mrs. Tim Gilliam Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hurd 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. George Schroeder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Semmes Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Spigel Mr. and Mrs. James H. Travis Mr. and Mrs. Ted Welsh

Mr. Bill Crow and Ms. Margaret Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Charles Du Val Ms. Judi Free Susan Toomey Frost and Craig Bunch Mr. and Mrs. Curtis C. Gunn Jr. Dr. P. Allen Hartsell Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hayne Drs. John D. Jones and Dr. M. N. Jones Mr. Graham B. Knight Ms. Kathleen McGrail Dr. and Mrs. James McMullan Mr. Larry Mills Mr. and Mrs. Stuart D. Moiles Oak Park Cleaners, LP Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Parrish Mrs. Jane Cheever Powell Ms. Ethel T. Runion Mr. and Mrs. Curtis T. Vaughan III Mrs. Barbara Wulfe Dr. Elly Xenakis

Corporate Partners as of October 31, 2018

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

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

Patron Circle

Sponsor $2,500

Sponsor $2,500

Associate $1,500

as of October 31, 2018

Mr. and Mrs. Curt Anastasio Mr. and Mrs. William D. Balthrope Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cheever Jr. 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 Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Kirksey Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Saffell Alice C. Simkins Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Smith Ms. Courtney J. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Westheimer Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Wirth

Associate $1,500 Drs. Lindsey and Clifford Alprin Rowan Altgelt Ann Griffith Ash Mrs. Sam Barshop Mr. and Mrs. Steve Blank Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bodine Ms. Margaret C. Boldrick Mr. and Mrs. Taylor S. Boone Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Brown Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ronald K. Calgaard Mr. James S. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Mrs. Barbara Christian Chumney Mr. Edward E. Collins and Ms. Penelope Speier Mrs. Barbara Condos

Catto and Catto LLP Alamo City Liquor Bolner's Fiesta Products, Inc. Christie's–New York & Houston North American Development Bank The San Antonio River Walk Association

Business Partner $1,000 Anne Zanikos Art Conservation Jef Waltman Technology Oak Park Cleaners, LP

Memorials and Honoraria July 1–October 31, 2018

In Honor of Harvey and Barbara Goldstein Dr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Miller In Memory of Col. (Ret.) Thomas M. Benagh Jerry and Anne Beverly McNay Docent Council Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schellenberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Senter In Memory of Martha Bischoff McNay Docent Council In Memory of Mr. Jonathan C. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Michael Baucum Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bures Mr. and Mrs. Joe Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Mrs. Barbara Condos Mr. and Mrs. Wallace J. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Jim Daniell Mr. Lukin T. Gilliland Jr.

Mr. James Gorman Mrs. Marie Halff Sarah E. Harte and John S. Gutzler Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hayne Mr. Peter J. Hennessey Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hurd Mrs. Eleanor S. Jordan Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Judd Jr. Mrs. Eleanor H. Lamb Ms. Linda S. Larkin Luther King Capital Management Dr. and Ms. Rudolph Massari Mays Family Foundation Theresa M. Nycz and Gary L. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Muecke The Jesse H. and Susan Oppenheimer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wenger Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Wirth Mr. and Mrs. Yates In Memory of Tom C. Frost Ms. Jan Ahlstrom Mr. Dean Alexander Mr. Charles Amato August A. Busch III Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Michael Baucum Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Berman Michael Bolner Brenham National Bank C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Mr. and Ms. Ruben Cardenas Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cavender Centro Properties, LLC City of Balcones Heights Community Bank & Trust Mrs. Barbara Condos Mr. and Mrs. Wallace J. Cox Mr. and Mrs. John B. Crenshaw Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crosby Mr. Harry Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Jim Daniell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Delavan Mr. Tieman H. Dippel Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Eugenio Mr. and Ms. Fred H. Falls Susan Toomey Frost and Craig Bunch Dr. and Mrs. Marcio Giacomoni Ms. Claire N. Golden Mr. and Mrs. Larry Golen Mr. James Gorman Mrs. Marie Halff Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Hamel Sarah E. Harte and John S. Gutzler Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hayne Heart Tail Ranch Ltd. Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Heller Mr. and Mrs. Austin E. Helmle Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hemminghaus Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Henion, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hoffmann Mrs. Karen Jennings Kaufman & Killen Inc. Kevin Leonard Mr. Jimmy Locke Mrs. Sharon Magruder Malitz Construction Inc. Diane McOmie Sylvia Montemayor Ms. Diana T. Morehouse Ms. Kimberlea Moser The John and Florence Newman Foundation

Mrs. Carla Northington Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP The Jesse H. and Susan Oppenheimer Foundation The Park Community Church Mr. and Mrs. Henry Perkins Bonnie Reed Ms. Lucinda Reeves Lynn B. Richter Mr. Mark Richter RSM US LLP Ernie Sadau San Antonio Medical Foundation San Antonio's Founding Heritage Mr. Stuart I. Schlossberg and The Honorable Mr. and Mrs. Terry Rainosek Ms. Nancy M. Schweers Mr. Greg Seiler Ms. Amy Stieren Smiley Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Smith Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Sorenson Mitch Spector Ms. Elizabeth Spencer Spurs Sports and Entertainment Mr. Debbie Terry Texas First Bank Col. Thomas J. and Ms. Lucia Tredici Mr. and Mrs. John S. Troy Sadie Upham Mr. and Mrs. Clifford S. Waller Mr. William J. Ware Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Westheimer Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony White Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Wirth Mr. and Mrs. John Wittenberg Mrs. Barbara Wulfe In Memory of Brenda Leathers Johnson Jerry and Anne Beverly Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Buente Dr. and Mrs. Jay H. Heizer Elizabeth Herr John L. Johnson McNay Docent Council Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Senter In Memory of Ms. Norma A. Renero Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Beverly Mr. Chad Carey and Ms. Kate Carey Dr. and Mrs. Jay H. Heizer Dr. Judith L. Martin McNay Docent Council Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Senter In Memory of Dr. Lewis H. Richmond McNay Docent Council Mrs. Barbara Wulfe In Memory of Mr. Jerry Spengler Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Senter

Library

as of October 31, 2018 In Memory of Jennifer A. and Cesar Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Amatangelo Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Armes Tera Gill Ann and Glenn Jones Mr. and Mrs. Keith Matteson Mr. and Mrs. Chris Scheer J. M. Sweeney

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SUMMER ART CAMP

VALENTINE'S DAY: Remember your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day with a hand-silkscreened card from Great Arrow Graphics, made in the USA. COMING SOON: Show off your McNay pride with our official 2019 Fiesta medal. Keep your eyes peeled for the limitededition design!

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Families have many options when choosing an art camp in San Antonio for their elementary-age child, but the McNay experience offers students a rare opportunity to study masterpieces up close. In 2019, the McNay offers all-day camp options and opportunities to share new art expertise.

Four sessions available: SESSION 1 July 15–19 SESSION 2 July 22–26 SESSION 3 July 29–August 2 SESSION 4 August 5–9 Registration opens March 1 at mcnayart.org.