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Artist Spotlight

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.

Niki de Saint Phalle: Her Work

Posted: April 5, 2010
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about Niki de Saint Phalle, who is known for sculptures of nanas and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.

Niki de Saint Phalle: Her Life

Posted: March 25, 2010
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about Niki de Saint Phalle, who is known for sculptures of nanas and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
A white clay sculpture that depicts the headless pregnant body of a woman with her arms extended out. Her belly and breast are painted in a multi-colored pattern.

From the Vault: Kay Sage

Posted: March 4, 2010
Category: Artist Spotlight
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.

Celebrating Black History Month: Elizabeth Catlett

Posted: February 19, 2010
Category: Artist Spotlight
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.
Learn more about artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella, whose work Plate 1 from "L'Entree de l'Empereur Sigismond a Mantoue" (1675) is featured in the NMWA collection.
A black-and-white, horizontal print depicts multiple Roman-style male figures on horseback. They hold weapons or brass musical instruments and process, somewhat chaotically, towards the viewer's right.

Artist Spotlight: Elisabetta Sirani

Posted: December 23, 2009
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about Italian artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), whose work Virgin and Child (1663) is featured in the NMWA collection.
A young, light-skinned, brunette woman gazes down lovingly at the plump baby she holds on her lap. She wears a loose, tan turban, vivid blue cloak, and red dress with white sleeves. The light-skinned child returns her gaze, leaning back to crown the woman with a circlet of roses.

Artist Spotlight: Rosa Bonheur

Posted: December 15, 2009
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about French artist Rosa Bonheur, who is known for her depictions of animals and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
A flock of sheep rest on a green hill by the sea. In the center, two adults and a lamb lie in a group. Flat rocks are visible through the grass. The sky has rolling clouds, and a breeze is suggested by the waves crashing on rocks in the sea, which stretches to the horizon.

Artist Spotlight: Lynda Benglis

Posted: November 6, 2009
Category: Artist Spotlight
Among NMWA's new acquisitions this year is a sculpture by the innovative Lynda Benglis. Often billed as a feminist artist, Benglis is media oriented, as she works in anything from...
A close-up of a silver, metal sculpture that appears to be tied in a giant knot with crisp folds in the metal sheets.

Artist Spotlight: Alma Thomas

Posted: October 14, 2009
Category: Artist Spotlight
NMWA is proud to have two works by Alma Thomas. The mesmerizing paintings—created when the artists was nearly eighty years old—have been visitor and staff favorites.
Abstract painting composed of brightly colored, lozenge-shaped brushstrokes in vertical stripes of navy, purple, turquoise, yellow, orange and red.The overall effect is as if the painting was collaged out of torn pieces of paper, with the white of the canvas showing through.

Artist Spotlight: Interview with Maggie Foskett

Posted: September 18, 2009
Category: Artist Spotlight
Maggie Foskett (American, b.1919) would not have you call her a “nature artist;” nor is she a romantic about humanity’s relationship with the natural world.