McNay Art Museum
 The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio |
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| place | San Antonio (Texas) USA |
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Art museum
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| opening | 1954 |
| management |
William J. Chiego
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The McNay Art Museum is an art museum in San Antonio, Texas.
history
In Ohio -born oil heiress Marion Koogler came shortly after her marriage to the Sergeant Don McNay Denton in 1918 for the first time to San Antonio. Don McNay died during a flu epidemic that same year. Marion married the prominent ophthalmologist Donald T. Atkinson in 1926. The couple had a 24-room Spanish colonial-style house built at the heart of the McNay Museum. Marion began collecting art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The marriage to Atkinson ended in 1936 and Marion again took the name of her first husband.
When she died in 1950, Marion McNay left behind more than 700 works of art. Her 9.3-acre home and estate became the foundation of the first modern art museum in Texas. In 1954 the museum opened to the public.
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Footnotes
Coordinates: 29 ° 29 '9.5 " N , 98 ° 27' 25.4" W.