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McNay, Marion Koogler

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role Collector Artist
dates 1883-1950
city San Antonio
stateTX
other citiesDeGraff, OH; El Dorado, KS; Chicago, IL;
sex F
historical notes Art collector, philanthropist, and founder of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum.

The McNay Art Museum continues to build on an already strong collection of 19th- and 20th-century European and American paintings and sculpture by significant artists ranging from Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, to Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Sloan, and Marsden Hartley.

Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute chgd. its name in 1983 to Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum.

Marion Koogler McNay was married five times:
Don Denton McNay (1917–1918)
Charles N. Phillips (1921–1926)
Dr. Donald Atkinson (1926-1936)
Victor Higgins (1937–1940)
and Adelbert E. Quest (1940–1941)

After her divorce from Atkinson and
subsequent divorces, she returned to her first husband’s name, which the museum
bears today.
decades
of activity
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
websitehttp://www.mcnayart.org
updated 02/07/2020 18:21:07
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute records, 1955-1981 see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Subject file: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum: miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Subject file: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute: miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details...
McNay Art Museum
Library & Archives
Marion Koogler McNay Papers. see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Subject file: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum: miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Subject file: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute: miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details...
McNay Art Museum
Library & Archives
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum Arvhives see details...