San Antonio Collects: Theodore Gentilz and Mission Life of San Antonio and Northern Mexico

San Antonio Museum of Art

March 2 through May 20, 2012

Lecture: March 6, 2012 | 6–8 pm

Beauty and the Borderlands: Old Texas-Mexico, Theodore Gentilz, and the French Gaze by Teresa Miriam Van Hoy, Ph.D., O'Connor Chair for the History of the Hispanic Southwest, St. Mary's University

Lecture: April 13, 2012 | 7–8 pm

Theodore Gentilz and the Discovery of Place By William Keyse Rudolph, Ph.D., Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum

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The second exhibition in SAMA’s three-part San Antonio Collects series. The sketching and paintings of French-born Theodore Gentilz, one of the earliest professional artists in San Antonio. Borrowed from local collectors, they highlight the people, places, customs and architecture from the end of the Republic of Texas.