SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Visitors to the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) can now see paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Vassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso, while discovering lesser-known artists like Albert Marquet and Alexei Jawlensky, in a new exhibition featuring seventeen artworks by masters who defined European modern art.

Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection opened today, June 12, 2026. It is on view in the European Gallery through June 10, 2029.

The exhibition highlights works from roughly the 1870s through the 1940s, a period that gave rise to artistic innovations such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Cubism. These movements stunned audiences, who encountered, for the first time, vibrant canvases painted outdoors using brilliant colors and loose brushwork; intense, subjective color to express feeling; and the use of multiple perspectives to break up the conventional picture plane in ever more abstract compositions.

Additionally, works by American sculptors Alexander Calder and George Rickey and painter Franz Kline are on view in the second-floor contemporary galleries.

Julian and Josephine “Josie” Tucker Robertson began collecting art in the late 1980s, eventually making generous donations to museums and giving the remaining artworks to the Robertson Foundation, established in 1996 to benefit education, the environment, and medical research.

“We’re truly grateful to the Robertson Foundation for allowing us to display these stunning paintings and sculptures that meant so much to the family in their New York home,” said Emily B. Neff, The Kelso Director. “We’re excited for our visitors to see the high level of quality in these jewel-like artworks and to learn about their role in the history of art as well as the Robertsons’ collecting journey, a private endeavor with a public impact.”