McNay Art Museum
McNay Art Museum is a museum in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 241 m. Black Hill stands 484 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Terrell Hills Public Garden, a garden 0.6 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 2.1 miles off.
The story
The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-room Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion that sits on 23 acres (9.3 ha) that are landscaped with fountains, broad lawns as well as a Japanese-inspired garden and fishpond. McNay was an American painter and art teacher who inherited a substantial oil fortune upon the death of her father. The museum was named after her, and has been expanded to include galleries of medieval and Renaissance artwork and a larger collection of 20th-century European and American modernist work. She built a home in 1927 designed by Atlee Ayres and his son Robert M. Ayres. When she died, the house was bequeathed to the City of San Antonio to house the museum. The museum focuses primarily on 19th- and 20th-century European and American art by artists including Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Mary Cassatt, and Edward Hopper. The collection today consists of over 20,000 objects and is one of the finest collections of contemporary art and sculpture in the Southwestern United States. The museum also is home to the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, which is one of the premiere collections of its kind in the U.S., and a research library with over 30,000 volumes. The McNay Art Museum added the Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions in 2008, built by architect Jean-Paul Viguier, to display their Modern collection. The 45,000-square-foot structure houses light-filled galleries for special exhibitions, a glass-fronted gallery for sculpture from the museum's collection, a gallery for paper works, wall cases for small objects, a lecture hall, and learning centers. The center's design, materials, and architectural details both contrast with and complement the original Spanish Colonial Revival-style residence, which it adjoins.
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Dates from 1950.
Wikidata Q286389, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 9.6 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Northridge Park: 0.9 mi
- Haskin Park: 1.1 mi
- Mission Plaza: 1.3 mi
- Headwaters Sanctuary: 1.4 mi
- Robber Baron Cave Preserve: 1.6 mi
- The Argyle: 1.1 mi
- Incarnate Word College: 1.4 mi
- Dodd Field (Fort Sam Houston) Enemy Alien Detention Station, World War II: 1.6 mi
- Route of El Camino Real: 2.0 mi
- Ludwig Mahncke: 2.0 mi
- Army Medical Museum: 1.7 mi
- The Witte Museum: 1.7 mi
- The Witte Museum: 1.8 mi
- HEBuddy Treehouse: 1.8 mi
- B. Naylor Morton Research and Collections Center: 1.9 mi
- Hillcrest: 6.6 mi
- Theis Hill: 7.1 mi
- Ninemile Hill: 7.3 mi
- Calf Hill: 7.3 mi
- Comanche Lookout: 8.7 mi
- Blue Hole: 1.3 mi
- Little Blue Hole: 1.4 mi
- Japanese Tea Garden: 2.1 mi
- Murchison Tower: 2.3 mi
- River boat boarding: 3.3 mi
- Sunken Garden Gate: 2.1 mi
- Magic Stones: 2.2 mi
- World's Largest Cowboy Boots: 3.2 mi
- The Grotto by Carlos Cortes: 3.5 mi
- Beacon Hill Obelisk: 3.5 mi
- Terrell Hills Public Garden: 0.6 mi
- Alamo Heights Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- San Antonio Botanical Garden: 1.8 mi
- Japanese Peace Garden: 1.9 mi
- Gardopia Gardens: 4.1 mi
- San Pedro Spring: 3.8 mi
- Devine Spring: 13.5 mi
- Walnut Spring: 13.8 mi
- Cherry Spring: 14.0 mi
- Indian Springs: 14.2 mi
- Fratt: 4.2 mi
- Coker: 5.4 mi
- Adkins: 14.7 mi
- Lone Oak Community: 15.2 mi
- Carpenter: 18.0 mi
- Bird of Prey: 11.6 mi
- Menoo Woods: 12.5 mi
- Mitchell Lake Audubon Center: 12.9 mi
- Medallion Park: 13.6 mi
- Cedar Creek: 14.8 mi
- The Picnic Place: 5.3 mi
- Alumni Pavillion: 6.8 mi
- Medicine Wall: 10.0 mi
- Red Bluff: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.0 miles of McNay Art Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hill | WNW 294° | 484 m | 18.3 mi |
| Devils Hill | N 1° | 466 m | 22.3 mi |
| Round Hill | NW 315° | 465 m | 20.0 mi |
| Cross Mountain | NW 314° | 460 m | 17.6 mi |
| High Hill | NNW 336° | 456 m | 15.2 mi |
| Leon Hill | NNW 333° | 451 m | 13.9 mi |
| Sykes Hill | NNW 338° | 449 m | 16.4 mi |
| Butte Hill | NNW 340° | 449 m | 16.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:14 | 19:46 |
| June solstice | 06:35 | 20:03 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 19:00 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 17:04 | 17:40 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 62 | 69 | 76 | 82 | 84 | 85 | 79 | 71 | 60 | 53 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Antonio Incarnate Word, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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