Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection

Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection is on at the San Antonio Museum of Art, and it's a long-haul show—it opened June 12, 2026, and runs through June 10, 2029. That gives you plenty of time to come back to it more than once.

The exhibition brings together seventeen artworks by the artists who defined European modern art from roughly the 1870s through the 1940s, a period of intense artistic ferment in France that sparked a revolution whose effects are still felt today. The works span Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Cubism, and you can see the shifts happen right in front of you: canvases painted out-of-doors with brilliant colors and loose brushwork; intense, subjective color used to express feeling; and the use of multiple perspectives to break up the conventional picture plane. The lineup includes Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, George Rickey, Franz Kline, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Armand Guillaumin, and Samuel John Peploe, plus two works from SAMA's own permanent collection.

Most of the show comes from the Robertson Family Collection, lent by the Robertson Foundation in honor of Julian and Josie Robertson, and also by Spencer and Sarah Robertson. If you're interested in the American side of that same collection, you'll find works by sculptors Alexander Calder and George Rickey and painter Franz Kline hanging in the museum's second-floor Modern and Contemporary galleries. Funding for the exhibition comes from the Amy Shelton McNutt Exhibition Endowment and the Helen and Everett H. Jones Exhibition Endowment.

The museum is at 200 West Jones Avenue in downtown San Antonio, and admission ranges from free to $24. With the show running until June 2029, there's no rush to fit it in this weekend—you can take your time with it.