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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.
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Patricia Piccinini

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.

Shedding Light: A Curator’s Perspective on Anna Ancher

Posted: May 9, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
"If you ask Danes to name a woman artist, they will say Anna Ancher," declared Skagens Museum curator Mette Bøgh Jensen in an enlightening gallery talk of A World Apart:...
Expressionist painting of a man and two women wearing white headscarves walking through a waist-high wheat field. The man and the woman following in the back carry scythes to cut the wheat.

Daring Danish Designer Nanna Ditzel (Part 2 of 2)

Posted: May 2, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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."

Daring Danish Designer Nanna Ditzel (Part 1 of 2)

Posted: May 1, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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."

Happy Birthday, Leonora Carrington!

Posted: April 5, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.

A Harmony of Opposites: Jiha Moon’s Floating Landscapes

Posted: January 23, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.

18th- and 19th-century Jet-setters

Posted: July 24, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.

Happy Birthday, Judy Chicago!

Posted: July 20, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.

Happy 105th Birthday, Frida Kahlo!

Posted: July 6, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.

A Look at Motherhood in Royalists to Romantics

Posted: June 11, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.