Art Is For Everyone. Help Make Access Possible.

Keep art accessible and women artists visible. Make your gift by June 30 and help us finish our fiscal year strong.    

Donate Now
A woman with light colored skin, wearing a black top and white pants, talks to a group of people in a gallery room. She stands in front of a large, painted portrait of a woman in a high-collared red dress.
NMWA Tickets
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Johanna Koerten

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.
Back to all blog posts

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam: Legacy
Posted: January 11, 2026
Category: Johanna Koerten
By reclaiming the lives and legacies of Dutch and Flemish women artists, we can begin to recover their significance to the cultural landscape of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
A portrait of a woman in historical dress surrounded by a garland of fruit and flowers. She is playing a guitar.

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam: Networks
Posted: December 30, 2025
Category: Johanna Koerten
Women were crucial to the artistic economy of the Low Countries, and female labor was a significant factor in the unprecedented expansion of trade and the thriving market for art...
Still life painting features a reddish ceramic colander with several types of fish. In the foreground, a cat stands alert next to shrimp and oyster shells on a gleaming pewter dish.