The McNay

Texas · USA · House

Marion McNay was an art collector who turned her own house into a museum. The west wing was going up when she died.

This museum in San Antonio was the home of Marion Koogler McNay, an art collector who left her house and her collection to become the first museum of modern art in Texas.

The west wing was under construction when she died.

She is described walking the halls and passing through walls, and witnesses describe her as floating rather than walking.

The walls are worth thinking about. A house extended into a museum has doorways where there were none and partitions where there were none, and a figure moving through a wall in the west wing is moving through something that was not there when she was.

McNay bought Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso and van Gogh at a time when almost nobody in Texas was buying such things, and her collection is the reason the museum matters.

The museum is open to visitors.

FAQ

Hvor ligger The McNay?

The McNay ligger i Texas, USA.