SAN ANTONIO.- Opening in the new Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, American Art Since 1945: In a New Light presents works from the McNay's ever-growing collection of late modern and contemporary art. For the first time in the museum's history, the postwar collection of American art is fully featured, including several significant new acquisitions. The exciting mixture of paintings, sculptures, and photographs in American Art Since 1945 explores a wide range of themes, subjects, materials, and approaches used by recent artists. This presentation of over 60 objects juxtaposes artworks that range from traditional representations of the everyday world and innovative uses of the human figure, to painterly, gestural abstractions and pure nonobjective compositions. Recent acquisitions, given by generous donors or strategically purchased by the McNay, comprise an important aspect of the exhibition and are publicly revealed here for the first time.

Among the numerous and diverse artists whose works are included in the exhibition are Larry Bell, Chakaia Booker, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Lesley Dill, Friedel Dzubas, Jane Freilicher, Red Grooms, Raoul Hague, Robert Indiana, Valerie Jaudon, Donald Judd, Ed Kienholz, Alexander Liberman, Csar Martinez, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Ernesto Pujol, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, George Segal, Sandy Skoglund, and Kiki Smith.