Catherine Yass explores the power of architecture to affect psychological states. By experimenting with color processing, Yass imbues her images of commonplace sites with an otherworldly formal beauty. P(art)ners: Gifts...

Loïs Mailou Jones’s long career had many chapters. One that is less-known is her career as a designer. In their 2000 study of women in design Pat Kirkham and Lynne...

“More is more,” was the motto of Miriam Wosk, the celebrated illustrator and mixed-media artist who passed away November 5. With her keen eye for detail, love for ornament and...

One of the most enduring traditions in American Indian life is pottery, which plays a central role in tribal rituals and ceremonies. Made primarily by women. these objects reflect both...

Learn more about painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, whose work The Town (1955) is featured in the NMWA collection.

Drawing inspiration from the social and economic conditions of the Great Depression, American illustrator and printmaker Blanche Grambs incorporated the struggles of the New Deal era into her work. Grambs...

Learn more about Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), whose work Paul Rosano, Seated Nude (1973) is featured in the NMWA collection.)

The correspondence between Frida Kahlo and her father, Guillermo Kahlo, is of interest not only because it concerns two figures prominent in Mexico’s cultural history, but also because it can...

In 2008, Washington D.C.-based collectors Heather and Tony Podesta donated a group of contemporary sculptures and photographs to NMWA. The works focus on gender and identity issues and challenge assumptions...

The catalogue for Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut includes essays by exhibition curator Krystyna Wasserman and Gut's fellow Italian book artist Mirella Bentivoglio, along with beautiful...