In an effort to place more of NMWA’s collection on view to the public, the staff recently reinstalled the Eulabee Dix Gallery, located on the museum’s fourth floor, “salon style.”
![Bucolic landscape rendered in a naive, folk-style of painting. The horizontal composition features a patchwork of yellow and green fields on rolling hills set against a blue-gray sky. In the foreground study farm buildings surround small figures tending to the land.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1986.225-e1591834026558-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Alison Saar (b. 1956, Los Angeles) is an American artist known for her sculptures, installations, and prints. Alison Saar In Print, on view through October 2, features 13 prints and...
![Lithograph print on a blue background portrays a nude woman laying horizontally across the length of the paper. In place of hair, a bottle tree appears to sprout from the figure’s head.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/56.2012-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Deconstructing Orientalism in “She Who Tells a Story”
Posted: May 29, 2016
Category: Suzanne Valadon
NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World is organized around three themes: Deconstructing Orientalism, Constructing Identities, and New Documentary.
![A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about painter Suzanne Valadon, whose work is in NMWA’s collection.
![Painting of a light-skinned girl with short, curly, dark brown hair sitting on a low stone wall. She leans against one of her legs propped up on the wall, the other leg dangling off the side. She wears a blue dress with patterns, and is surrounded by lush greenery and red flowers.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1986.334-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2501x330.jpg)
Nearly 300 years apart, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) and French artist Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) both used their perspectives as women to capture the power and complexity of the female...
![Against a dark black and brown background, a light skinned woman in a red dress with wavy reddish-brown hair wears a white cloth and gold crown around her head. Her right hand clutches a palm while her left grazes a spiked breaking wheel. She stares straight at the viewer.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artemisia-Self-Portrait-as-Saint-Catherine-of-Alexandria-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)