Second floor, Elizabeth Huth Coates East Tower
Overview | Collections Highlights
Ocean
Philip Guston, American
1976
Oil on canvas
78 x 116.5 in.
San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Brown Foundation
78.1280
The Museum’s contemporary collection reflects the richness and diversity of art of the recent past. Included are significant works by pioneering abstract artists of the 20th century, among them Hans Hofmann, I. Rice Pereira, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Philip Guston, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Gilliam, Alberto Mijangos and Mark DiSuvero. Contrasting with these examples of modern and contemporary abstraction are representational works by Philip Pearlstein, George Segal, Don Eddy, and Wayne Thiebaud.
The collection also contains significant works by artists who have gained importance since the 1980s, among them Donald Lipski, Vernon Fisher, James Surls, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jack Goldstein, Arnold Mesches, Vik Muniz, and Dario Robleto. Multicultural and identity issues are well represented in works by Faith Ringgold, Luis Jimenez, Kara Walker, Michael Ray Charles, Rolando Briseño, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, and many others. A new area of collecting is digital photography and new media.
