National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington)
The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington is one of the largest art museums in the United States and the largest in the world that collects exclusively works of art by women.
Creation of the museum
When a larger exhibition with works of art created by women was shown for the first time during the world exhibition in 1893 , many visitors first developed the desire to create a house for women artists from world history with a permanent exhibition. But it was not until the end of the 20th century that this wish was implemented with the establishment of the “National Museum of Women in the Arts”. The main initiator was Wilhelmina Cole Holladay , who was able to win over a number of organizations and private individuals for the project through selfless advertising. The basis of the collection was her own collection, which she and her husband Wallace F. Holladay had been putting together since the 1960s. In 1981 the new museum was officially registered as a private, non-profit organization. Two years later, in 1983, an impressive building was acquired for the collection, which previously had no premises of its own. It was the former Masonic temple of the Grand Lodge "District of Columbia". After extensive work on the building, the museum was able to open its doors in its own building for the first time in 1987. The museum now houses an impressive collection of works of art that cover the period from the Renaissance to the present and show that there have always been women who were artistically active.
Selected works of art
Works until the end of the 18th century
Sofonisba Anguissola : Portrait of a woman with her daughter; Rosalba Carriera : Allegory of America; Lavinia Fontana : Portrait of a Woman; The Holy Family with the boy John; Marguerite Gérard : Prelude to a concert; Angelika Kauffmann : The family of the Earl of Gower; Adélaïde Labille-Guiard : Presumed Portrait of the Marquise de Lafayette ; Judith Leyster : The concert; Charlotte Mercier : Portrait of the Madeleine de la Bgoière de Perchambault; Portrait of Oliver le Gouidic de Troyen; Louise Moillon : Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and Pomegranates; Marie-Geneviève Navarre : Portrait of a woman; Clara Peeters : Still Life with Fish and Cat; Rachel Ruysch : Flowers in a Vase; Flowers in a jug; Elisabetta Sirani : Mary with the child; Anna Dorothea Therbusch : Woman with a veil; Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun : Portrait of Princess Belozersky; Portrait of a Little Boy
19th century works
Cecilia Beaux : Portrait of Ethel Page; Rosa Bonheur : Sheep by the Sea; Mary Cassatt : The Bath; Camille Claudel : Young girl with a bundle (plastic) ; Eva Gonzalès : Portrait of a woman in white; Berthe Morisot : The Bird Cage; Lake on the Bois de Boulogne; Lilla Cabot Perry : Portrait of Elsa Tudor; Lady with violet peel; Lady in evening dress
20th century work
Lola Álvarez Bravo : De Generación en Generación ; Alice Baber : Burning Boundary ; Sonia Delaunay : Study for Portugal ; Eulabee Dix : Portrait of Ethel Barrymore ; Boy with red hair ; Portrait of Betty Sadler ; Malvina Hoffmann : Anna Pavlova (sculpture); Frida Kahlo : self-portrait , dedicated to Leon Trotsky; Ida Kohlmeyer : chauffeur ; Käthe Kollwitz : Lying in his arms (plastic); Farewell (plastic); Elaine de Kooning : Bacchus No. 3 ; Jardin de Luxembourg VII ; Lotte Laserstein : Dare, washing herself ; Marie Laurencin : Portrait of a young girl with a hat ; Doris Lee : Churches in the Sun (Siesta) ; Paula Modersohn-Becker : head of an old farmer's wife ; Gabriele Münter : child with ball ; The Staffelsee in autumn ; Breakfast of birds ; Anne Truitt : Summer Dryad (plastic); Suzanne Valadon : Combing Female Nude ; Bouquet of flowers in an empire vase ; The discarded doll ; Girl on low wall ; Marguerite Thompson Zorach : Reclining female nude
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Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '59.9 " N , 77 ° 1' 45" W.