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Books & Catalogues

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Browse the museum’s special exhibition catalogues and books that highlight the legacies of acclaimed women artists, past and present.

Featured Publications

Collection Highlights

The museum’s new collection highlights catalogue (2023) explores the breadth of NMWA’s holdings, drawing connections among more than 180 works and sharing new essays by more than forty artists and scholars.

A book cover features five vertical rows that contain detail imagery from different works of art, including a floral still life painting, a bronze sculpture, a black-and-white photograph, a landscape painting, and a painted portrait.

Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750

Accompanying the landmark exhibition at NMWA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (Belgium), this catalogue highlights more than 40 female artists from the 17th-century Low Countries, challenging their historical obscurity and showcasing their diverse contributions to art.

The cover of the exhibition catalogue Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750, showing a historic painting of a woman artist seated at an easel with her landscape painting in progress, set against a solid muted background.

Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter

Mattai’s mixed-media works are presented in full-color images alongside an essay by critic Aruna D’Souza and an interview with the artist that illuminates how her practice challenges colonialist narratives.

The cover of the exhibition catalogue Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter shows a close-up of one of Mattai’s layered textile and needlepoint artworks: a profile of a seated young girl in a yellow dress reading a book, with a halo-like arrangement of black beads around her head, set against a vibrant patchwork background.

New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024

Featuring full-color images and statements from the exhibition’s 28 artists, this catalogue presents works that reflect our extraordinary times, exploring themes of displacement, belonging, and ecological crisis.

The cover of the New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition catalogue shows the title “New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024” in green text on a mostly white background with subtle abstract shapes and small scattered dark marks.

The Sky’s the Limit

NMWA’s inaugural reopening exhibition features large-scale contemporary sculpture and immersive installations. Giving primacy to artists’ voices, the publication shares artists’ essays and poetry on the inspirations behind their work.

A book cover features the image of a sculpture on a white base. It is assembled from many materials: blue parasols, black wooden horns, a black wooden rhino figurine, green nylon, beaded flowers, a red doll’s head, clear glass chandelier drops, and more. Just above it, white text reads “The Sky’s the Limit” in all caps.

Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020

This fully illustrated catalogue features personal statements by the exhibition’s twenty-two featured artists, who turn paper into innovative, complex works of art.

Book cover features bright red stacks of crinkled paper radiating from the left side. The books title 'Paper Routes Women to Watch 2020' is in white text.

Judy Chicago: New Views

The first major monograph on Chicago in twenty years, New Views provides fresh perspectives and features key bodies of work from her career.

Cover Judy Chicago New Views Catalogue

Marguerite Gérard: 1761–1837

Sponsored by NMWA’s Suzanne & James Mellor Prize, this book by scholar Carole Blumenfeld brings to light the work of French painter Marguerite Gérard.

Book cover features a painting of an indoor scene of two women with light skin sitting in an indoor setting. The book's title "Marguerite Gerard" is in white lettering at the top of the book.of Marguerite Gérard: 1761–1837 Catalogue

Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018

The Heavy Metal exhibition catalogue showcases contemporary artists working in metal through full-color imagery and artist statements.

Book cover features a slivers of silver form to form a textured pattern with the words: "Heavy Metal: Women to Watch 2018"