Women Artists in Our Collection

Helen Frankenthaler, Nature Abhors a Vacuum, 1973, acrylic on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto, Canada, 2004.129.1
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, March 1936, gelatin silver print, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, 2016.191.3
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Zarina, Untitled, 1968, woodcut on handmade paper, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2022.7.3
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Remedios Varo, Banqueros en acción (Bankers in Action), 1962, oil on fiberboard, Gift of Funds from Margot Kelly, 2023.48.1
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Katharina Fritsch, Hahn / Cock, 2013, painted glass fiber-reinforced polyester resin on stainless steel armature, Gift of the Glenstone Foundation in honor of the resilience of the American people during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020.23.1
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Julie Mehretu, Cole Rogers, Entropia (review), 2004, color screenprint and lithograph on Arches 88 paper, Thomas G. Klarner Collection, Gift of Neal Turtell, 2018.24.1
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Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses, Grandma Going to the Big City, 1943, oil on board, Gift of Maria and Conrad Janis, 2023.160.4
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Dakota Mace, Helen Nez-Diné Elder, 2021, inkjet print, Gift of the Charina Endowment Fund in memory of Robert B. Menschel, 2024.23.2
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Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., no world, 2010, color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper, Donald and Nancy de Laski Fund, 2015.42.1
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Luisa Roldán, Virgin and Child, c. 1680/1686, painted wood, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund and William and Buffy Cafritz Family Sculpture Fund, 2022.39.1
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Cara Romero, Sisterhood is Sacred, 2018, printed 2023, inkjet print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2024.45.4
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Karin Bergöö Larsson, Pierre Louis Alexandre, 1879 - 1880, oil on canvas, mounted on board, Gift of Funds from Laura and John Arnold, Virginia Cretella Mars, and Maria Elena Weissman, 2024.6.1
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Marisol, Untitled, c. 1963/1968, mixed media, Gift of Adeline and Sidney R. Yates, 1999.3.1
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Belkis Ayón, Belkis Ayón, Sin titulo [Mujer en posición fetal] (Untitled, Woman in fetal position), 1996, collograph on four joined sheets of wove paper, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of Funds from Philip D. Berlin, Carmen Corrales, Ernesto Poma, Elizabeth Dascal, and Charles Boyd, 2023.47.1
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Judy Chicago, Tamarind Institute, Through the Flower 1, 1972, color lithograph on wove paper, Gift of June Wayne, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.205.93
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Maya Lin, Latitude New York City, 2013, Vermont Darby marble, Gift of Louise and Leonard Riggio, 2013.163.1
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Kay WalkingStick, North Rim Temple, 2023, oil on panel, Gift of the Collectors Committee and Gift of Funds from Reid Walker, 2024.17.1
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Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1949.6.1
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Faith Ringgold, The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding, 1967, oil on canvas, Gift of Glenstone Foundation and Patrons’ Permanent Fund, 2021.28.1
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Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.18
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Sophie Rivera, Untitled, 1978, printed 2006, gelatin silver print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2024.8.2
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Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit, 1783, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 2023.40.1
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Adrian Piper, Campbell Photo and Printing Service, Brody's Gallery, Forget It, 1991, color photo-offset lithograph on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase), 2015.19.3024
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Shell No. I, 1928, oil on canvas, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.58.7
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Elizabeth Catlett, J. K. Fine Art Editions Co., Joseph Kleineman, Maureen Turci, Links Together, 1996, lithograph on wove Arches paper, Purchased as the Gift of Art Information Volunteers in Honor of Dianne Stephens, 2021.63.1
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Magdalena Abakanowicz, Puellae (Girls), 1992, bronze, Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1998.148.1
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Alma Thomas, Pansies in Washington, 1969, acrylic on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Vincent Melzac), 2015.19.144
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Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party, 1893/1894, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.94
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Mary Lee Bendolph, Blocks and Strips, 2002, wool, cotton, and corduroy, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.28.1
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Cecilia Beaux, Sita and Sarita, c. 1921, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund), 2014.79.1
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Alison Saar, Jim "BJ" Hughes, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Black Snake Blues, 1994, color offset lithograph on wove Arches paper, Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, 2023.22.44
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Joan Mitchell, Salut Tom, 1979, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts), 2014.136.135
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Beatriz Milhazes, Romantico americano, 1998, oil on canvas, Gift of Tony Podesta Collection, Washington, DC, 2023.4.1
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Jenny Holzer, Left Palm and Knife Edge 000417, 2007, oil on linen, Gift of the Artist, 2010.78.3
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Carrie Mae Weems, May Flowers, 2002, printed 2013, chromogenic print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2014.3.1
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Lavinia Fontana, Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni, c. 1590, oil on canvas
, Gift of Funds from Anonymous in memory of Montana Walker Strauss, and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2022.38.1
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Georgia Speller, Gloria Jean with Her Old Man and Sally Brown, a Friend Lady, 1987, transparent and opaque watercolor and acrylic with graphite on wove paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.28.24
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Rachel Whiteread, Ghost, 1990, plaster on steel frame, Gift of The Glenstone Foundation, 2004.121.1
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Margaret Burroughs, Black Venus, c. 1957, linocut, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.29
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Know nothing, Believe anything, Forget everything), 1987/2014, digital print on vinyl, Gift of the Collectors Committee, Sharon and John D. Rockefeller IV, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Denise and Andrew Saul, Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, Agnes Gund, and Michelle Smith, 2014.38.1
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Mary T. Smith, Untitled, 1987, paint on plywood, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.28.23
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Beatrice Wood, Lovers, 1933, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.5128
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Betye Saar, Twilight Awakening, 1978, mixed media on printer's wood block, Gift of Francine Farr in honor of Dr. Samella Sanders Lewis, with gratitude to Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2015.27.1
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Clare Leighton, Breadline, New York, 1932, wood engraving in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3119
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Gego, Tamarind Institute, Suite 5X I, 1966, lithograph (stone) in black on white Nacre paper, Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith, 1983.18.508
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Anna Hyatt Huntington, Yawning Tiger, c. 1917, bronze, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist), 2015.19.3666
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Hung Liu, Needlework, 2004, lithograph in black on chine collé on Arches Cover White paper, Gift of Eric Denker in honor of Lynn P. Russell, Curator of Education, 2005.102.5.11
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Julia Margaret Cameron, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866, albumen print, New Century Fund, 1997.97.1
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Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather, 1993, complete set of fourteen busts: seven in chocolate and seven in soap on fourteen pedestals, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2016.49.1
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Anonymous Artist, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie-Antoinette, after 1783, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.41
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Adios Map, 2021, mixed media on canvas, Gift of Funds from Glenstone Foundation, 2022.20.1
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Sonia Delaunay, Composition, 1950, color lithograph, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, 1971.86.13
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Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1962, welded iron, canvas, wire, and black paint, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2004.44.1
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Mickalene Thomas, Melody: Back, 2011, diffusion transfer print (Polaroid), Charina Endowment Fund and Peter Edwards and Rose Gutfeld Fund, 2020.3.1
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Miriam Schapiro, Anonymous was a Woman I, 1977, softground etching in red-brown on Arches paper, Gift of the Artist, 1979.9.2
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Kiki Smith, Craig Zammiello, John Lund, Jihong Shi, Douglas Volle, Bruce Wankel, Universal Limited Art Editions, My Blue Lake, 1995, color photogravure and lithograph inked à la poupée on En Tout Cas paper, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2018.71.1
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Ming Smith, Sun Ra Space II, New York, New York, 1978, gelatin silver print, Charina Endowment Fund, 2017.42.1
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Eko Skyscraper, 2019, acrylic and color pencil on panel, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation, 2022.2.1
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Käthe Kollwitz, Pietà, 1903, lithograph in brown and black on gray-green Bristol board, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5273
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Graciela Iturbide, Procesión, Chalma, México (Procession, Chalma, Mexico), 1984, printed 1990, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Kyle Roberts), 2015.19.4668.8
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Ruth Asawa, Tamarind Institute, Desert Plant, 1965, color lithograph on Rives Type IV paper, Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith, 1983.18.177
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Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 2004, color offset lithograph on wove paper, Gift of the Gallery Girls in support of the Guerrilla Girls, 2007.101.32
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Ana Mendieta, Untitled, c. 1972, gelatin silver print, Glenstone in honor of Eileen and Michael Cohen, 2008.30.29
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Alice Neel, Hartley, 1966, oil on canvas, Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.143.2
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Zanele Muholi, Ntozakhe II, (Parktown), 2016, printed 2022, photographic wall mural from digital file, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2021.88.1
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled #122, 1983, chromogenic print, Gift of Robert B. Menschel, 2022.154.55
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Lee Miller, Work by Joseph Cornell, 1933, gelatin silver print, Gift of Mary and David Robinson, 1995.35.20
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Leonora Carrington, Erika Greenberg-Schneider, Natasha Lovelace, Hank Hine, Ray Puckett, David McDaniel, Mark Callen, Jill Lerner, Jennifer Melko, Robert Hanning, Graphicstudio, The Memory Tower, 1995, aquatint, direct gravure, and spitbite aquatint and hardground etching on Somerset Satin paper, Gift of Graphicstudio/University of South Florida, 2002.111.3
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Vera Molnár, Interruptions, 1969, computer drawing in black ink on Benson plotter paper, Gift of the Artist, 2018.38.1
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Hilary Pecis, Flea Market, 2021, acrylic on linen, Gift of George Frederick Mead Merck, 2021.56.1
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