It’s always terrific to visit the McNay Print Fair and this
year it was all just lovely. The Museum planned it perfectly with a nice
drizzle on Saturday and cool temperatures on Sunday, so attendance was great.
Today, Monday, it’s colder in San Antonio than in New York City where there was
a snow storm – how does that work?
There was strong interest in modernist pieces by Peter
Grippe, Fannie Hillsmith, and Hugh Mesibov, and figurative work of the New Deal Era
as well.
In the museum there were terrific exhibitions including American
Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, on view through May 19. The
Tucker Torpedo, 1948, is pictured here to the right of Theodore Stamos’s
Brown-Gray, a painting of 1959. This particular car is the very last of the
fifty Torpedos ever made. The company failed after ‘The Big Three’ conspired to
put it out of business.
Also on view is curator Lyle Williams’ Van Gogh to Munch:
Seduction and Anxiety, through May 5. Go for a stunning print show but pay
special attention to the Rodolph Bresdin, Good Samaritan, 1861 and the four
Paul Gauguins on view.
As always, many thanks to Lyle for sticking with the collectors
and the dealers all the way though the weekend.
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ClassicCars, PostwarPainting, NewDeal PostwarPaintings, TuckerCar, TuckerTorpedo,
PrintFair, CollectPrints, IFPDA
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