In honor of A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony, on view through May 12, 2013, we’re researching other delightful, innovative, and interesting Danish women in the...
![View of a gallery space. On a white wall, it says "A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ancher-Exhibition_03_15273-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
The art of Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) belongs to “a magical realm between sleep and waking, conscious and unconscious.”¹ On April 6, 2013, we celebrate the enchanting artist on what would have been her...
![Eerie figures walk, float, swim and stand in a pastoral landscape. A grey house sits next to a small body of water, the lawn decorated with small shrubs and trees. A pair, one dressed and one nude, pet a stripped animal as ghostly figures move through the foreground.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1990.109a_314-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
In a celebration of high jinks and jokes, take a look at pranksters in NMWA’s collection. Among art tricksters’ tools of deception are optical illusions, unconventional materials, and trompe l’oeil...
![Four hard-edged octagons, each divided into eight pie-slice shapes painted red, pink, orange, yellow, olive green, blue, violet, or lavender, occupy a square, white background. Dark at the wide and narrow ends of each wedge, the hues create the illusion of 3-dimensional forms.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2005.1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
A Harmony of Opposites: Jiha Moon’s Floating Landscapes
Posted: January 23, 2013
Category: Judy Chicago
As a “cartographer of cultures,” Jiha Moon strives to be “a visual interpreter of the mixed cultural worlds of [her] generation.” The Atlanta-based artist creates kaleidoscopic works of art that...
![Abstract painting features translucent, wave-like turquoise, aquamarine, and fuchsia washes mingled with red lines and hard-edged, matte-pink sinuous shapes bounded by blue and green scales. Other details resolve into a human hand, tree-sprigged mountains, and craggy branches.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2012.26-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Traveling was as much an obstacle for French women in the 18th and 19th centuries as was professional painting. While today’s Europe is stitched with high-speed rail and affordable flight...
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Royalists-to-Romantics_12_7734-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Her vision is to “move beyond the construct of femininity into the un-gendered and free space that should be available for every human being”; her means of achieving it is...
![Four hard-edged octagons, each divided into eight pie-slice shapes painted red, pink, orange, yellow, olive green, blue, violet, or lavender, occupy a square, white background. Dark at the wide and narrow ends of each wedge, the hues create the illusion of 3-dimensional forms.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2005.1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Today, on her 105th birthday, we celebrate Frida Kahlo, whose 143 finished paintings focused on Mexican culture, gender identity, social justice, and often pain. Born on July 6, 1907, to...
![A letter, opening with "Mamacita Linda," written in dark ink on a yellowed sheet of paper.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Kahlo-Matilde-Calderon-de-1931-2.12.1931_0001-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Royalists-to-Romantics_12_7734-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)