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The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is the first museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. Opened in 1987, NMWA maintains a collection—now more than 5,500 works spanning the late sixteenth century through today—that features art by Louise Bourgeois, Lavinia Fontana, Frida Kahlo, Amy Sherald, and Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, among others.
The museum’s holdings of Dutch and Flemish art include works by Judith Leyster, Maria Sibylla Merian, Clara Peeters, Magdalena van de Passe, Rachel Ruysch, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Alida Withoos, making it the one of the most significant collections of art by women of the Low Countries in the United States.
Virginia Treanor, Senior Curator (December 2024)