NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS i: L'Ur-'"- • i.-u-i • sa CONTENTS SPONSOR'S STATEMENT | 6 by Hamish Maxwell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Philip Morris Companies Inc. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 by Anne-lmclda Marino Radice, Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts INTRODUCTION: WHYANATIONALMUSEUMOF WOMENINTHE ARTS? | 8 by Alessandra Comini, University Distinguished Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University FOUNDERS' STATEMENT 14 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION 15 Seventeenth Century ITALIAN: Lavinia Fontana, 16; Elisabetta Siraiii, 19 FLEMISH: Clara Peeters, 20 GERMAN: Anna Maria Van Schurman, 23; Maria Sibylla Merian, 25 Eighteenth Century ' ^ DUTCH: Rachel Ruysch, 27 FRENCH: Marie Anne Loir, 28; Marie-Genevieve Navarre, 31; Adelaide Labille-Guiard, 33; Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, 34; Marguerite Gerard, 37; Antoinette Cecile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, 39 SWISS: Angelica Kauffman, 40 Nineteenth Century AMERICAN: Anna Claypoole Peale, 42; Lilly Martin Spencer, 45; Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, 46; Mary Cassatt, 48; Lilla Cabot Perry, 51; Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 52; Ellen Day Hale, 54; Cecilia Beaux, 57; Evelyn Beatrice Longman, 58; Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 59; / Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, 60; Malvina Hoffman, 60 FRENCH: Rosa Bonheur, 63; Berthe Morisot, 64; Camille Claudel, 67; Suzanne Valadon, 68; Marie Laurencin, 70 . ., Twentieth Century AMERICAN: Gertrude Kasebier, 73; Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 74; Berenice Abbott, 77; Marguerite Thompson Zorach, 79; Georgia O'Keeffe, 80; Beatrice Whitney Van Ness, 83; Alma Thomas, 84; Charmion von Wiegand, 87; Alice Neel, 88; Isabel Bishop, 90; Lee Krasner, 93; Dorothea Tanning, 94; Elaine Fried de Kooning, 97; Joan Mitchell, 98; Georgia Mills Jessup, 101; Helen Frankenthaler, 102; Audrey Flack, 105; Eva Hesse, 106; Dotty Attie, 109; Nancy Graves, 110; Alice Aycock, 113; Maria Montoya Martinez, 114; Lucy Lewis, 114; Margaret Tafoya, 115 BRITISH: Gwendolen John, 116; Barbara Hepworth, 118; Leonora Carrington, 120; Bridget Riley, 123 CANADIAN: Dorothea Rockbume, 125 GERMAN: Kathe Kollwitz, 127; Paula Modersohn-Becker, 128; Gabriele Miinter, 131 PORTUGUESE: Maria Elena Vieira da Silva, 133 RUSSIAN: Natalia Goncharova, 134; Alexandra Exter, 137; Sonia Terk Delaunay, 138 SCOTTISH: Anne Redpath, 141 SWISS: Alice Bailly, 142; Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 145 BLACK-AND-WHITE PLATES | 146 BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING | 249 INDEX TO ARTISTS AND WORKS | 250 PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS I 254.