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Blake, Jody,
1953-
An eye for the stage
: the Tobin
Collection of
Theatre Arts at the
McNay Art Museum
years of the Tobin Collection
of Theatre Arts at the McNay
Art Museum in San Antonio,
Texas. Robert L. B. Tobin was
an important theatre patron
and a visionary theatre
colelctor who appreciated the
artistic as well as the
documentary importance of
scene and costume designs.
His collection, which includes
preliminary sketches,
presentations drawings, and
maquettes, comprises the core
of the theatre arts collection at
the McNay. With special
strengths in nineteenth-and
twentieth-century American
and European designs for
poperas, ballets, and musicals,
the Tobin Collection is among
the finest of its kind in an
American art museum. Noted
for its holdings of designs by
painters who also designed for
the stage, including Henri
Matisse, Pablo Picasso,
PN1620.A1
Natalia Gontcharova, and
B53 2004 2004 Giorgio de Chirio, the Tobin
English
Marion Koogler
McNay Art Museum