McNay in San Antonio

What a great museum, what outstanding art. These are just a few pictures from the outside, but it is a wonderful, world class museum. The new part and the old part work together really well, and the garden, filled with a few fine sculptures is a treasure in itself.

 The lower part of the older building from the park:

The incredible inside yard - a small fountain, canal, plants and places to rest in the shade.

The lower part - different perspective

A plate on one of the small walls in the park

And here is the McNay on maps plus their own homepage.

Finally art again

How to get adventure loving kids to go and look at some fine art? Well, for me it worked father's day. After a wonderful breakfast prepared by Aly, we headed towards the Austin Museum of Art at the Laguna Gloria. (AMOA, One of the very few places like this in Austin open before noon. )

And how lovely a place! A wonderful old building placed at the Laguna Gloria and the Colorado. Some nice art in there and a landscape to dream about. Built on a slope of a small hill it gives a wonderful view on these waters, endless greens with sculptures and small pathways.

The bronze from Beverly Penn is spectacular, I did not know you can cast bronze this filigree. Pond stones from Liz Ward are similar in a way - decent from afar, delicate from close up. The 'sabine cache' by Faith Gay is a wonderful piece as well as the dark palm tree in the main room. And these gardens!