Art to Lunch: Origin Stories
Great heroes and villains are marked by the extraordinary circumstances that shape them. To whet our appetite for the opening of Heroes and Villains on June 10, Art to Lunch will look at the origin stories of some of our favorite heroes in SAMA's permanent collection.
All summer long, Art to Lunch will be celebrating the heroic and the villainous as a part of the special exhibition programming around Heroes and Villains.
San Antonio Museum of Art (great_hall)Great Hall
Ticket Price: $5.00 for non-members
Ticket Price Members: Free
Great heroes and villains are marked by the extraordinary circumstances that shape them. To whet our appetite for the opening of Heroes and Villains on June 10, Art to Lunch will look at the origin stories of some of our favorite heroes in SAMA's permanent collection.
All summer long, Art to Lunch will be celebrating the heroic and the villainous as a part of the special exhibition programming around Heroes and Villains.
Image Title:
Guanyin Bodhisattva (detail)
Chinese, Song-Yuan Dynasty, mid-13th century
Wood with traces of pigment and gilt
h. 50 in. (127 cm); w. 29 in. (73.7 cm); d. 16 in. (40.6 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bessie Timon Endowment and Lenora and Walter F. Brown, 85.58
