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McNay Art Museum, TPA debuts hand-painted film backdrops preserved from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

San Antonio, TX – In a first-time collaboration, the McNay Art Museum and Texas Performing Arts (TPA) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) join together to debut six rare hand-painted, sound-stage backdrops from Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Studios alongside artworks from The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts in the Museum’s latest exhibition, Hollywood’s Sistine Chapel: Sacred Sets for Stage & Screen.
McNay Art Museum, TPA debuts hand-painted film backdrops preserved from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

San Antonio, TX – In a first-time collaboration, the McNay Art Museum and Texas Performing Arts (TPA) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) join together to debut six rare hand-painted, sound-stage backdrops from Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Studios alongside artworks from The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts in the Museum’s latest exhibition, Hollywood’s Sistine Chapel: Sacred Sets for Stage & Screen.

The exhibition is on view in the Tobin Theatre Arts and Brown Galleries through April 4, 2021.

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