![Rendered in loose, impressionistic brushstrokes in muted pastel tones, the still life painting depicts a brass birdcage with two small birds cuddled next to each other on a perch. The cage sits adjacent to and partially obscures a bowl of lush red, yellow, and white flowers.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1986.223-GAP-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-7-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-8-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-9-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-13-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-14-700x330.jpg)
Wicked Wilderness: “Will-o’-the-Wisp” by Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Forbes
Posted: October 31, 2015
Category: From The Collection
In the spirit of Halloween, explore the painting Will-o’-the-Wisp (ca. 1900) by Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Forbes in NMWA’s collection.
![An auburn-haired, light-skinned young woman occupies the central panel of a triptych. Barefoot and clad in a sleeveless white dress, she reclines on a bed of autumn leaves in a rocky, moonlit landscape. The mist at her feet obscures mice. Fairy folk frolic in the left panel.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2001.139-GAP-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Petah Coyne, whose work is on view at NMWA.
![A sculpture hangs in a dark gallery. The sculpture comprises layers of melted pink and white wax that form a dress-like shape hanging from satin-wrapped chains. Its color, shape, and bumpy, lacy texture, evoke a frilly tutu, lavishly frosted wedding cake, or coral.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Revival-Exhibition_12-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2559x330.jpg)
Within fraught and mysterious settings, Remedios Varo’s fantastical protagonists seem to undertake quests through time or space
![Rendered with precise brushwork, a tall, thin figure strides forward wearing flowing, orange garments emanating a misty golden aura. Her fiery red hair stretches heavenward, encircling a celestial orb. Figures appear encased in the walls of the concave structure surrounding her.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2014.155-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Born in Venice, Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757) was the daughter of a clerk and a lace-maker. Largely self-taught, she began her artistic career painting miniature portraits. Carriera employed ivory as the...
![A woman with light-skin and brown hair stands slightly angled and stares straight out to the viewer. In her right hand, she holds an upward-pointing arrow and carries a quill of bows on her back. She wears light feathers in her hair and a delicate jeweled crown.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1987.1-GAP_248-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)