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National Museum of Women in the Arts

Nmwa Exhibitions

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.

The Tenth Muse, "La Decima Musa"

Posted: June 13, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Widely considered the foremost Baroque poet in 17th-century colonial Mexico, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) was a Catholic nun, self-taught polymath, prolific poet and playwright, and the author...
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.

A Look at Motherhood in Royalists to Romantics

Posted: June 11, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Marie Victoire Lemoine

Posted: June 8, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Constance Marie Charpentier

Posted: May 30, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Césarine Henriette Flore Davin

Posted: May 23, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Rose Adélaïde Ducreux

Posted: May 15, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Madeleine Françoise Basseporte

Posted: May 4, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Sister Mary Corita on PBS!

Posted: April 17, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Kathryn A. Wat was recently interviewed by PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Wat described R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, NMWA’s current exhibition of Corita’s...
A white room with a wall in the foreground that has bold, red and orange text that reads ‘R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, March 9–July 15, 2012.’ In the background, bold and colorful prints with text are hang on a white wall.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Posted: April 10, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Woman Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.