About The Massachusetts State Committee
We are art lovers, collectors, curators, artists and
community organizers dedicated to supporting the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as supporting the work
of women artists in Massachusetts.
About
the Museum
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located
in Washington, D.C., in a landmark building near the White
House, is the only museum dedicated solely to celebrating
the achievements of women in the visual, performing and
literary arts by exhibiting, preserving and researching art
by women. More than 120,000 visitors enjoy the museum each
year.
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Lilla Cabot Perry
Lady With a Bowl of Violets,
ca. 1910
Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay |
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The museum's collection contains
works by more than 800 artists from the 16th century to the
present, including Judith Leyster, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mary
Cassatt, Camille Claudel, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo,
Elizabeth Catlett, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Magdalena
Abakanowicz and Louise Bourgeois. |
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