Impress your friends with five fast facts about Sharon Core, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in the collection galleries and in Super Natural.
![A full crystal sherry glass and plate mounded with raisins and iced cakes occupy the middle ground of a still-life photograph. Luscious green grapes sit in the left foreground, and greenery rises in the background. The image explicitly imitates18th-century, still-life paintings.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2014.32-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Learn more about artist Patricia Piccinini, who is known for The Stags and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
![A sculpture consists of two metallic-orange motor scooters manipulated to resemble male deer. Leather seats become haunches, dashboard dials resemble faces, and multiple rear-view mirrors morph into antlers. The serpentine, hybrid animal-machines appear to spar for dominance.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2014.120_from-artist-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Elisabetta Gut, whose work is currently on view in NMWA’s galleries.
![A brown, tropical fruit with a large segment of skin removed to reveal small, round pages of sheet music inside instead of fruit flesh. The book rests on a square woodblock with “libra—seme” printed in the bottom-right corner.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2004.33_v2-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Rachel Ruysch, whose work will be on view at NMWA in Super Natural, June 5–September 13, 2015.
![A still life painting featuring an asymmetrical arrangement of flowers; the central section features pink, orange, yellow, and blue flowers and is dramatically highlighted compared to the background and outer edge of arrangement.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1986.282-GAP-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about painter Suzanne Valadon, whose work is in NMWA’s collection.
![Painting of a light-skinned girl with short, curly, dark brown hair sitting on a low stone wall. She leans against one of her legs propped up on the wall, the other leg dangling off the side. She wears a blue dress with patterns, and is surrounded by lush greenery and red flowers.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1986.334-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2501x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Andrea Higgins, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in the collection galleries.
![Close-up detail of a larger abstract artwork features thick black paint meticulously applied in small neat rectangles alternating orientation to form a grid. There is a minuscule amount of space between the tiles that allows a pink background to show through.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DSC02178-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in Picturing Mary.
![Three quarter length painting of a woman standing against a dark background. She is wearing a sumptuous red Renaissance-style dress with a high lace collar. Standing next to her at bottom left is a child holding a small spaniel.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2001.134-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Artemisia Gentileschi, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in Picturing Mary.
![View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)