Hear from docent Jayne Beline about her favorite paintings, sculptures, and photographs that all connect to the idea of “home.”
![A color photograph of a young light skinned girl with light blonde hair. The girl peeks out from a fort made from a dark blue and purple comforter. A light pink and purple stuffed unicorn sits on a purple and white floral rug in front of the fort. A purple, blue, white, and black paper butterfly-shaped kite hangs on the wall above the fort.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2013.65-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
We spoke with NMWA Director of Publications Elizabeth Lynch about the museum’s brand-new collection highlights catalogue, which draws connections among more than 180 works.
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Red: A Taste of the Remixed Collection Galleries
Posted: October 4, 2023
Category: From The Collection
NMWA’s new collection installation features thematic galleries such as “Seeing Red,” which explores artists’ rosy, bold, and fiery uses of the color red.
![Painting features vertical tile-shaped brushstrokes in various shades of red separated by horizontal white lines. Creating a rhythmic and mosaic-like pattern that resembles stitching, the white lines create stair steps in the lower right corner, separating as they move towards the center.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1986.324-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Handle with Care: Interview with a Conservator
Posted: September 21, 2023
Category: From The Collection
In preparation for NMWA’s reopening in October, two collection works that will be on view for the first time received conservation treatments.
![An oil painting of a mountainous landscape with a river cutting through it is laid on sterile table and prepared for conservation. A compass its in the lower left corner of the painting.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/22-023_DT_re-lining-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Get familiar with acquisitions from the museum’s 2022 fiscal year, including a new sculpture by Alison Saar, a still life by Louise Moillon, and a beaded work by Sonya Clark.
![Tiny, colorful beads arranged in patterns to depict Esther Mahlangu painting a large artwork of geometric shapes in light pink and blue, black, white, yellow, and green. She is a dark-skinned adult woman wearing colorfully patterned robes.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Esther-Mahlangu-tiff-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpeg)
Discover the newest additions to NMWA’s collection, gifts of late museum founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay.
![An opulent, footed silver bowl overflows with ripe cherries in front of a dramatic dark background. Additional fruits lie on the table below the bowl, and a butterfly flutters to one side.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022.24_Galizia_43890-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
About Town: NMWA at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Posted: August 17, 2022
Category: From The Collection
During the museum's renovation, art from NMWA’s collection is on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Learn about works by Clara Peeters, Berthe Morisot, and more.
![Two women are surrounded by baskets of grapes and other produce. They are both light-skinned and wearing old-fashioned attire with head wraps and full skirts, stand on either side of a table, as the younger one places a bin of grapes into a large basket on the other’s back.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2006.42-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Just a mile from their home at NMWA, 11 collection works are on display at the National Gallery. Learn about works by Frida Kahlo, Eva Hesse, and Amy Sherald as...
![Wearing a bright yellow apron-style dress with strawberries and lace-trim details, an expressionless young woman with medium-dark skin tone rendered in grayscale stares out with her hands in her dress pockets. Her head is cocked to one side against an intensely pink-colored background.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2012.2-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
NMWA at the National Gallery: Historical Heroines
Posted: April 20, 2022
Category: From The Collection
Just a mile from their home at NMWA, 11 collection works are on display at the National Gallery. Learn about works by Sarah Miriam Peale and Cecilia Beaux as presented...
![Realistic half-portrait of a light-skinned woman, set against a dark background, with her face brightly illuminated as she gazes directly at the viewer. She is clad in dark Victorian dress with her hair pinned up under a hat adorned with a red velvet bow.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1986.17-e1588624764539-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x320.jpg)
This spring, New York City's New Museum presents Faith Ringgold: American People, which features NMWA's own American Collection #4: Jo Baker’s Bananas (1997).
![Colorful quilt with a multi-patterned background that depicts five medium skin toned, bare breasted dancing women wearing skirts of bananas and yellow necklaces. Below, from left to right, a medium-dark skin toned and light skin toned men and women interact and play brass instruments.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2016.63-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)