Opening this Week: Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age
Posted: October 8, 2019
Category: Judith Leyster
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1986.263_Art-Camera-6-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Alice Neel (1900–1984), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![A sick man with medium skin tone lies on a bed with purple bedding and stares out with a dignified expression. The left side of his chest is misshapen and covered with a white bandage. Thick outlines define his body and highlights on his arms and face accentuate his frail frame.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1983.24-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
In Judy Chicago's newest body of work, she draws on Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief. She represents these stages of grief and simultaneously reckons with her own...
![A painted sign with black text on a beige background. The text reads "Stages of Dying."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judy-Chicago-Stages-of-Dying-1-of-6-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Live Dangerously reveals the bold and dynamic ways in which female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world. Twelve groundbreaking photographers use humor, drama, ambiguity, and innovative storytelling to illuminate...
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The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, the newest body of work by iconic feminist artist Judy Chicago, continues the artist’s practice of tackling taboo subjects. In these works,...
![The words 'The End' in bold, uppercase print is shown in an iridescent box of pinks and greens with a solid black border. 'A meditation' sits atop of the box in cursive writing and 'on Death and Extinction' sits below in the same lettering.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judy-Chicago-Title-Panel-The-End-A-Meditation-on-Death-and-Extinction-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), best known today for her innovative fashion photography.
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As the first major monograph on the feminist artist Judy Chicago in nearly 20 years, Judy Chicago: New Views provides fresh perspectives by leading scholars and curators.
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about abstract expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Close-up detail of an abstract painting that features dense and chaotic brushstrokes of pale gray, lavender, and cobalt.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DSC01587-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling presents the artist’s monumental cedar wood sculptures alongside newer works for the first time.
![A large cedar and paint sculpture installed against a white wall.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OCEAN-VOICES-1-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Judy Chicago (b. 1939), who will celebrate her 80th birthday on July 20.
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