San Antonio's McNay Art Museum to Host "Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio" Exhibition

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By TAHLIB
Paul Strand, Cristo with Thorns, Huexotla (detail) from The Mexican Portfolio, 1933, printed 1967. 
TEXAS---This summer, the McNay Art Museum presents the traveling exhibition "Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio" which includes 20 photogravures from Paul Strand’s 1933 visit to Mexico.  Recent gifts of San Antonio collector Susan Toomey Frost, these 20 prints present not only a window into pre-tourist era Mexico, but are beautiful examples of the incredibly complex medium of photogravure, a printmaking technique that combines photography with etching. The soft, sepia tones of the medium give these images of rural churches, crosses, and fieldworkers a timeless and otherworldly expression. Built by artist and educator Marion Koogler McNay in the 1920s, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style home opened as Texas' first museum of modern art in 1954.

McNay Art Museum: "Paul Strand:The Mexican Portfolio" (June 4-August 24, 2014); 6000 North New Braunfels, San Antonio, Texas; (210) 824-5368; mcnayart.org

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