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The National Museum of Women in the Arts Celebrates 25 Years National Museum of Women in the Arts ifty-one percent of visual artists today are women, yet only 5 percent of the art on display in U.S. muse- Fums is by female artists. Enter the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), with its mission to recognize women artists across the world by exhibiting, preserving, and researching their work. Located in Washington, D.C., NMWA is the world’s fi rst and only museum dedicated to women’s contributions to the arts. NMWA celebrates its 25th anniversary this You ARe year, and if the museum’s accom- plishments over the past quarter century are any indication, there’s a bright future ahead for this groundbreaking institution. NMWA opened in 1987, after starting in 1981 as a small museum INVITed located in founder Wilhelmina Cole The National Museum of Women Holladay’s Georgetown home. Avid art collectors, Holladay and her in the Arts celebrates 25 years. husband uncovered “art’s blind spot” in the 1970s when they found that BY MARTHA-PAGE ALTHAUS most of the world’s great art museums did not display work by Elegant Entry women. The Holladays set out to PATRONS ENTER THE MARBLE LOBBY rectify this oversight, and their TO VIEW WORKS SuCH AS SARAH personal collection of some 500 BERNHARDT’S SCuLPTuRE APRÈS LA TEMPÊTE (AFTER THE STORM), works by female artists became the OPPOSITE PAGE. foundation for the museum. In 1987, 62 march 2012 usairwaysmag.com usairwaysmag.com march 2012 63 National Museum of Women in the Arts NMWA opened in its current to the present. They range from Sibylla Merian, one of the foremost collection highlights location, 1250 New York Ave. NW, paintings, sculptures, and prints to natural history illustrators of the three blocks from the White House. artists’ books and video works, 17th century. { Lavinia Fontana { among many others. Rosa Bonheur’s Sheep by the avinia Fontana (1552–1614), one of collection highlights Renaissance work includes Sea and Camille Claudel’s small Bologna, Italy’s leading painters in NMWA’s permanent collection leading Italian painters Lavinia sculpture, Young Girl with a Sheaf, Lthe late 16th century, was the first continues to grow, with more than Fontana’s Portrait of a Noblewoman highlight the 19th-century collec- woman in Western Europe to gain 4,000 works by some 800 women and Elisabetta Sirani’s Virgin and tion. And famous American artist widespread recognition as an artist. artists. The museum’s diverse Child, as well as hand-colored Mary Cassatt’s impressionist prints Famous for her portraits, Fontana moved to Rome in 1604, where holdings date from the 16th century engravings by German-born Maria also reside at NMWA, as do Pope Paul V commissioned her portraits by Sarah Miriam Peale as a court painter. and sculpture by actress Sarah Portrait of a Noblewoman is a Bernhardt (see page 63). Berthe marriage portrait of an unidentified Morisot’s impressionist paintings, Bolognese noblewoman. The dog represents marital fidelity, and the such as The Cage, put her in the lavish red dress is similar to most same league as Renoir, Monet, Bolognese wedding dresses and Degas. during this time. Fontana was More than 40 percent of known for her attention to NMWA’s gallery space features detail, seen here in this richly textured dress of velvet, satin, art from the past 100 years. The jewels, and lace. museum’s modern offerings include: sculptor Barbara Hep- worth’s alabaster Merryn; surrealist paintings by Remedios Varo; photographs by Berenice Abbott and Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky; Georgia O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawing Alligator Pears in a Basket; Dorothy Dehner’s bronze ➺ sculpture Looking North F; an oil on History 101 canvas, The Springs, by Lee Krasner; MWA is housed in by European women. and contemporary sculpture by a former National Temporary special exhibi- Magdelena Abakanowicz. NMasonic Temple in tions set up on the second NMWA is also at the forefront of the heart of Washington, floor, and 19th-century, another contemporary art medium D.C. Ironically, at one time modern, and contemporary — artists’ books. The museum has women were not allowed works line the third floor. more than 1,000, one of the world’s to enter. The Library and Research leading artists’ books collections. After renovating the Center occupies the fourth 1907 Renaissance Revival floor. Finally, the Perfor- More than a museum building at 1250 New York mance Hall and Auditorium As a private museum with a very Ave. NW, the museum fill out the fifth floor. public purpose, NMWA’s presence opened in 1987, winning On the ground floor, extends beyond the art on its walls. architectural and historic the Great Hall exudes Frequently held lectures, author preservation awards. elegance. Think marble readings, films, and the acclaimed Its 80,000-square-foot floors, crystal chandeliers, Shenson Concert Series celebrate building boasts five floors and sweeping staircases — women in all art forms. Some of the of exhibition space, begin- perfect for museum and great performers at NMWA concerts ning with early masterworks private events. include Midori, Sharon Isbin, Ahn Trio, and Olga Kern. Educational Lavinia Fontana, Portrait oF a nobLewoman, c. 1580; oiL on canvas, 45 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.; nationaL museum oF women in the arts; GiFt oF waLLace Continues on p. 68 ➺ and wiLheLmina hoLLaday; FundinG For the Frame GenerousLy Provided by the texas state committee 64 march 2012 usairwaysmag.com usairwaysmag.com march 2012 65 National Museum of Women in the Arts Trailblazer interesting to you and others.” WILHELMINA COLE In an attempt to research Clara HOLLADAY FOuNDED NMWA IN 1981. Peeters, a woman artist whose work they had seen in Vienna’s Kunsthis- uce torisches Museum and again at l Madrid’s Prado Museum, the ooth ooth Holladays discovered there was not b a single woman artist in H.W. re Janson’s History of Art, the authori- clA ble tative book on art history. It meant A that those who had studied in onor America knew none of the great h the women artists. Thus the educa- F tional focus of their collection was t o giF ; born: “To show the contribution of S women to the history of art.” “When you really and truly get into the collecting of art, it’s so meaningful to you that it has a life Women in the Art the in Women of its own,” said Holladay, in an F interview with Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. o eum muS The Holladays amassed a l A collection of more than 500 works Getting St-ART-ed by women. Noteworthy purchases nAtion The birth of the National Museum included pieces by Vatican painter Lavinia Fontana and Spanish of Women in the Arts painter Sofonisba Anguissola. In 1981, they opened their home for onite, 30 x 24 in.; 24 x 30 onite, n April 7, 1987, national museum of vast potential guided tours, and six years later, AS NMWA opened in influence.” NMWA opened at 1250 New York Ave. NW. m on il the heart of Washing- That’s quite the contrast from o ton, D.C., to great when Holladay and her husband, Today the museum continues to fanfare. Balloons Wallace, began collecting art in the grow. The collection includes works filled the air, the National Sym- ’50s and later discovered the rarity by more than 1,000 women artists. 1937; SKy, rot O t phony performed, and guests came of women artists in major muse- More than 80 education and eon from across the U.S. and abroad. ums. The two had always shared outreach programs are held each l The art critic Paul Richards an interest in art: An amateur water- year. Twenty U.S. and European covered the milestone occasion for colorist, Wallace had a master’s committees spread NMWA’s to ted A the Washington Post, writing: “Do degree in architecture. And mission. The museum’s Library and edic not be misled. Washington’s Holladay worked part time at the Research Center continues to be d it Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the National Gallery of Art. She also the world’s information leader on A museum’s founder, has accom- served on the Corcoran Gallery of female artists. -Portr plished something radical. No Art’s board of directors for ten years. “I truly feel that the arts are F player in the art scene here has a Meanwhile, the Holladays meant to be shared,” Holladay says. this self-portrait shows Kahlo congresswoman, was visiting collection highlights hlo, Sel hlo, deeper understanding of power casually bought artwork for their “You can buy art, you can hang it A (1907–1954) holding a letter to Kahlo in her studio when she K and money and of how our system Georgetown home. A friend who on your wall . but great art has a A { Frida Kahlo { Leon Trotsky. Kahlo had a brief learned that Trotsky was affair with the exiled Russian assassinated. Kahlo rushed works. Despite her white-glove was a great collector, Richard life of its own. There is a longevity ne of the most iconic leader in the late 1930s while he toward the painting with a knife graciousness, hard-working Billie Brown Baker, cautioned them: “If of great art that has very little to do paintings in NMWA’s was seeking asylum in Mexico. to destroy it, but Luce inter- Holladay is a warrior and a winner. you are going to be collectors, you with the individuals who for a time O collection, and the only In 1940, Clare Booth Luce, vened and convinced the artist She has called into existence a must have a focus.
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