Discrimination in the art world is not a new topic, and since the second wave of feminism, more focus has been placed on discrimination against women artists. (The second wave...
![Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2009.11.49_1070-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Guerrilla Girls in Venice
Posted: July 21, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Some of the most recent works in NMWA’s The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back are from the Girls’s 2005 showing at the Venice Biennale, a contemporary art fair that has taken...
![Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2009.11.49_1070-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
NMWA’s current exhibition, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, features one of Julia Jacquette’s recent works, White Square (2004).
![View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pressing-Ideas_Tamarind_30_15149-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Elaine de Kooning
Posted: July 12, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Elaine (Fried) de Kooning (1918–89), primarily known for her Abstract Expressionist portrait paintings, was also an influential art teacher at institutions including Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Parsons School of Design,...
![View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pressing-Ideas_Tamarind_30_15149-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-3-700x330.jpg)
Ask Heather Monthly Feature: Treasures of the Library and Research Center: exploring the Doris Lee Archive
Posted: July 1, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Want to know more about a lesser-known woman artist? The history of NMWA? A history of fashion worn to NMWA Galas? Heather Slania, director of NMWA’s Library and Research Center,...
![Two rows of colorfully painted fruits on a white background, mostly red apples with slices cut out of them. Other fruits depicted include plums, a banana, grapes, a green apple, and a lemon.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1986.200-transp_20973-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
From Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Polly Apfelbaum
Posted: June 23, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Inspired by popular culture and, to a lesser extent, feminism, Polly Apfelbaum compels viewers to think about the pleasure of the aesthetic experience. A contemporary printmaker and mixed-media artist, Apfelbaum is...
![Twelve vertical columns, each a different color, of repeating flower, pinwheel, and starburst shapes on a white background.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/57.2012-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Artist Spotlight: Dorothea Lange—Behind the Lens of an American Icon
Posted: May 9, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Dorothea Lange’s photograph of Migrant Mother with Three Children, Nipomo, California is a haunting image, epitomizing an era of hardship that has truly stood the test of time. But who...
![An installation view of a gallery space with white walls and a gray floor. On the wall facing the viewer it says "Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection" in blue and pink letters.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/EyeWonder_02_14530-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Artist Spotlight: Gertrude Käsebier as Photography Pioneer
Posted: April 18, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
One of the artists featured in Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection is Gertrude Käsebier (1852—1934), (pronounced “KAY-zerr-beer”), one of the most influential photographers of the early...
![Ethereal black-and-white photograph of a women wearing a long white dress and gossamer veil, sitting in a stable, holding a swaddled infant. Dramatically illuminated by a shaft of light streaming in, she gazes down at the child cradled in her arms.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1986.164_GAP-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Learn more about artist May Stevens, whose work SoHo Women Artists (1978) is featured in the NMWA collection.
![Life-sized, full-length portraits of 12 individuals form a frieze-like composition against a saturated lapis-blue background. Most of those portrayed are noted feminist artists and critics. Details from the artist's earlier paintings appear above and to t](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1995.98_transp-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Artist Spotlight: Claude Raguet Hirst—Trumping Male Still Life
Posted: March 22, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about artist Claude Raguet Hirst, whose work A Gentleman’s Table (late 1890s to early 1900s) is featured in the NMWA collection.
![Painting of a blue tablecloth with gold and red pattern. Strewn across the top are half-empty glasses of wine and brown liquid, playing cards, lemon halves and matches. Two pipes, one long and white, one small and dark, lie next to a container of sugar cubes, corks, and bottles.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2005.30-GAP-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)