UTSA hosts art tour to benefit scholarships
(Feb. 23, 2004)--The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Art and Art History and the College of Liberal and Fine Arts will host “Rooms With a View,” a tour of outstanding private San Antonio art collections, at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 6.
Proceeds from the event benefit UTSA scholarships for art graduate students. A donation of $100 per attendee is tax-deductible. Donors can also sponsor a student’s participation for an additional $100.
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RSS FeedsThe event includes tours of two local private collections of Western and contemporary art and a luncheon. The Western collection includes works by Charles Russell, Frederic Remington, Curtis Delano and Taos, N.M., artists. The contemporary collection features works from three continents, including art by UTSA alumnus Daniel Kelly, UT Austin alumnus Dan Sutherland and New York artist John Newman.
Michael W. Duty, an expert in Western art and history, will guide the Western art portion of the tour. He has written numerous articles and organized more than 30 museum exhibitions.
Duty judged the annual exhibition of the Cowboy Artists of America at the Phoenix Art Museum and the Western Heritage Awards at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. In 1997, he oversaw the design and installation of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame permanent Western art galleries and served as curator for “Frederic Remington: An American Master.”
Duty is founding officer for Museums West, a consortium of 10 leading museums of Western art, history and Native American culture in the United States and Canada.
For more information and to purchase tickets, contact the Department of Art and Art History at 210-458-4352. The deadline for ticket reservations is March 2.