Marion Koogler McNay

Marion Koogler McNay (7 February 1883 – 13 April 1950), was an American painter,art collector, and art literary who familial a substantial oil fortune on the death of her parents. She complex willed her fortune to be used to assert San Antonio's first museum of futuristic art, which today bears her name. Inspired by Modern, Impressionism, and American Art she used her wealthy background to cultivate her eclectic art collection. McNay was nimble to design her San Antonio house after touching there in 1926. As soon as McNay moved to San Antonio she began buying and commissioning art pieces. The Spanish styled home was accomplished to showcase a diverse amount of paintings including both American and European styled art. McNay favored Art made in the South Western American style. The fortune she familial was competent to fund her art hoard which spanned more than seven hundred art pieces by 1950, marking the year of her passing. San Antonio allowed McNay to have an spacious estate marking over 23 acres of land. The set sights on for McNay was to make her museum "a place of beauty later than the comforts and glow of a home."