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Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry

Posted: November 21, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC) to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference...

Wonder Women: Flappers Meet Underground Comics

Posted: September 11, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
NMWA could not host an exhibition called Wonder Women! without featuring several exceptional comics! The first group of objects on view in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center...
Comic book cover featuring a woman in a bathing suit with a blue bottom with stars and a red top. She has a light skin tone and is appearing oversized as she tramples across a busy highway, shattering planes with her hand. The title reads "Ms" and "Wonder Woman for President."

Wonder Women in the NMWA Library

Posted: July 17, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
This summer the blockbuster film Wonder Woman has already earned more than $724 million. The NMWA Library and Research Center staff could not resist swinging their own golden lasso by...
Comic book cover featuring a woman in a bathing suit with a blue bottom with stars and a red top. She has a light skin tone and is appearing oversized as she tramples across a busy highway, shattering planes with her hand. The title reads "Ms" and "Wonder Woman for President."

Who Did Simone de Beauvoir Inspire?

Posted: June 21, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove. Museum...

What Did Simone de Beauvoir Write?

Posted: June 6, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
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.

What Did Simone de Beauvoir Read?

Posted: May 24, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove....

What #BeauvoirSays to NMWA

Posted: May 15, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
Visitors ask me why the National Museum of Women in the Arts has a dedicated installation to honor Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir was not an artist, not a patron, and...

Recent Acquisitions at the LRC: Richenda Cunningham’s Letter

Posted: April 19, 2017
Category: Library And Research Center
The LRC recently acquired an original letter from British printer Richenda (Gurney) Cunningham (1782–1855). Her lithographic portfolio of travel prints “Nine Views Taken on the Continent” (ca. 1830) resides in...
An etching of a temple amidst ruins. At the entry of the temple, four little figures in soldier gear are standing and sitting. On the other side of the temple, a woman in a hat is walking along the collonades. Underneath the etching, it says: "Temple of Caius

Dead Feminists Live Again

Posted: December 13, 2016
Category: Library And Research Center
Bold Broadsides and Bitsy Books is on view in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC). From the public nature of broadsides to the intimacy of a tiny...
A bookshelf packed with colorful books about women artists.

Photographer Lori Grinker Documents Life “Afterwar”

Posted: November 10, 2016
Category: Library And Research Center
Learn about photographer Lori Grinker and her book Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict, which features portraits and first-person testimony chronicling the lasting traumas experienced by soldiers.
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.