Upcoming Exhibition
Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection
June 12, 2026–June 10, 2029
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Bust of a Woman, summer 1953, Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (100.3 × 82.6 cm); framed: 51 1/4 × 43 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (130.2 × 111.1 × 5.7 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection features seventeen artworks by world-renowned artists who defined European modern art from roughly the 1870s through the 1940s. During this period, a remarkably creative artistic ferment, especially in France, sparked a revolution in art, the effects of which continue to this day.
The artworks in Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection exhibit a range of art movements including Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Cubism. These series of artistic innovations stunned audiences around the world who encountered for the first time vibrant canvases painted out-of-doors 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.
The exhibition also includes two works from SAMA’s permanent collection. Additionally, works by the American sculptors Alexander Calder and George Rickey and painter Franz Kline, also from the Robertson Family Collection, may be viewed in the second floor Modern and Contemporary galleries.
This exhibition is funded by the Amy Shelton McNutt Exhibition Endowment and the Helen and Everett H. Jones Exhibition Endowment.
Exhibition Gallery
Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944), Study for Autumn Landscape with Boats, 1908, Oil on board, 12 × 15 3/8 in. (30.5 × 39.1 cm); framed: 25 1/2 × 26 1/4 × 1 7/8 in. (64.8 × 66.7 × 4.8 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955), Still Life, 1928, Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 × 25 3/4 in. (54.6 × 65.4 cm); framed: 28 7/8 × 33 1/8 × 2 1/4 in. (73.3 × 84.1 × 5.7 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976), Untitled, ca. 1954, Sheet metal, brass, wire, and paint, 4 × 4 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (10.2 × 10.8 × 4.4 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Bust of a Woman, summer 1953, Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (100.3 × 82.6 cm); framed: 51 1/4 × 43 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (130.2 × 111.1 × 5.7 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Samuel John Peploe (Scottish, 1871-1935), Recto: Still Life of Roses in a Chinese Vase with a Black Fan, ca. 1930, Oil on canvas, 19 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (49.5 × 40 cm); framed: 30 1/2 × 26 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (77.5 × 67.9 × 11.4 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson
Samuel John Peploe (Scottish, 1871-1935), Verso: Still Life of Tulips in a Chinese Vase, ca. 1924 , Oil on canvas, 19 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (49.5 × 40 cm); framed: 30 1/2 × 26 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (77.5 × 67.9 × 11.4 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson
Pierre Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Still Life with Melon, Almonds, and Figs, 1882, Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 × 25 5/8 in. (54 × 65.1 cm); 33 × 37 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (83.8 × 95.3 × 10.8 cm), Lent by Spencer and Sarah Robertson, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson
Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841-1927), The Suspension Bridge, ca. 1873, Oil on canvas, 12 1/2 × 18 1/4 in. (31.8 × 46.4 cm); Framed: 20 1/2 × 25 1/4 in. (52.1 × 64.1 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., 2005.1.174
Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841-1927), Épinay-sur-Orge, 1884, Oil on canvas, 23 × 28 in. (58.4 × 71.1 cm); framed: 32 3/4 × 38 × 3 1/4 in. (83.2 × 96.5 × 8.3 cm), Lent by the Robertson Foundation, in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson
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