The San Antonio Museum of Artwork (SAMA) is beginning 2026 with a treasure trove of recent acquisitions. The downtown museum says the brand new items will considerably improve its modern, Latin American, and historic Mediterranean collections.
Among the many additions is a present of greater than 60 works on paper by Latin American and Latine artists from Drs. Ricardo and Harriett Romo. The donation spans pictures, lithography, screenprint, and linocut, that includes main Twentieth-century Mexican artists similar to David Alfaro Siqueiros, Carlos Mérida, and Francisco Toledo, alongside modern figures together with Carmen Lomas Garza, Patssi Valdez, Juan de Dios Mora, and Vincent Valdez.
SAMA additionally obtained 103 Mexican textiles and weaving instruments from Dr. Jill Vexler, a lot of it collected throughout her discipline analysis in Nahua communities in Puebla within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. The group consists of kids’s clothes, on a regular basis clothes, menswear, and festive costume, in addition to historic items collected by Vexler’s mom, Esther Scharlack Vexler. The textiles are accompanied by in depth documentation of strategies and makers.
SAMA’s pictures assortment is increasing with 104 photographs gifted by Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz. The donation consists of works by American photographers Herb Snitzer and Erika Stone, classic Vietnam Conflict press pictures by Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas, and Related Press wirephotos tied to key moments of the final decade’s historical past.
This 18th century Peruvian chest options embossed leather-based and iron fittings.Photograph courtesy of San Antonio Museum of Artwork
Historic artwork was bestowed by Chris Karcher and Karen Keach. The 16 Egyptian objects, collected within the early Twentieth century by Egyptologist Keith C. Seele, embody a stone fragment of a royal portrait courting to roughly 747–656 BC, a travertine providing stand from round 2686–2181 BC, and extra stone and clay vessels.
Rounding out the latest acquisitions are two early experimental works by artist Larry Bell, donated by Michael W. Rabkin and Chip Tom, and newly acquired items by modern artists Frieda Toranzo Jaeger and César Rangel Ramos. Toranzo Jaeger is thought for work that interweave Indigenous embroidery traditions, Northern Renaissance non secular imagery, and Mexican muralism. Rangel Ramos attracts from Catholicism, Mesoamerican perception methods, and Greco-Roman concepts, utilizing a way he calls “albigraphy,” which mixes friction and fluid on a hard and fast floor.
“We’re thrilled so as to add greater than 2 hundred objects to our assortment with these new acquisitions, with an emphasis on our Latin American and modern collections,” stated Emily Ballew Neff, PhD, The Kelso Director at SAMA, through a launch. “I additionally wish to thank our beneficiant donors and the curatorial crew for shepherding these acquisitions, in help of our aim to repeatedly develop and diversify our collections with works that maintain the tales of world cultures throughout time.”
The newly acquired works will likely be built-in into SAMA’s everlasting assortment and future exhibitions, persevering with the museum’s ongoing effort to mirror a large spectrum of inventive traditions and histories.
