American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins

Alice C. Simkins’s aunt, the Houston collector and philanthropist Alice N. Hanszen, introduced her to the McNay when she was quite young. However, it was during a museum trip in 1969 to London, Paris, and Madrid, led by founding McNay director John Palmer Leeper, that her long history with the museum really began. Leeper was so impressed with the Newcomb College graduate that he invited Simkins to join the McNay’s staff. During her time as a staff member, she completed her Master of Arts thesis, a beautifully researched and much needed catalogue of the collection of Mary and Sylvan Lang, and organized an exhibition of American women artists in celebration of the American Bicentennial, American Artists ’76: A Celebration. Read more.

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