Museum
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Renaissance revival landmark holding thousands of works made exclusively by women artists.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. begins in a Vienna gallery in the 1970s, where Wilhelmina Cole Holladay stood before a signed still life by a painter named Clara Peeters and went home to find her missing entirely from the standard art history textbook of the day. You'll hear how that gap turned into a collecting obsession she and her husband pursued for years, and about the self-portraits Peeters hid in reflections across her own paintings that nobody had noticed. It traces the long road from that one overlooked name to the doors two blocks from the White House.
This audio guide was created using AI.