After a two-year, nearly $70 million renovation and expansion, the world's first museum devoted exclusively to art made by women, in Washington, D.C., has reopened.
It's been more than two years and almost $70 million, but at long last the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C., is relaunching. When this museum opened in 1987, it was the first in the world devoted exclusively to art made by women. An independent, non-profit organization, it was the vision, explained museum director Susan Fisher, of one woman: Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, a philanthropist and collector in Washington.
'Because Krasner was as talented as her very famous husband.' Today the museum is packed with works by women who have gained international renown, including photographers Berenice Abbott and Mary Ellen Mark; painters Georgia O'Keeffe and Amy Sherald; potter Maria Martinez; and multi-media artists Judy Chicago and Niki de Saint Phalle. 'It's wonderful to come into the space and know that all of this work is made by women,' said artist Alison Saar.
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