A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts

by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

Book Overview

Over the centuries, until quite recently, the work of great women artists had been ignored, forgotten, or denied; they had been largely left out of museums and histories of art. Along came Wilhelmina Cole Holliday, who boldly decided it was time to rectify this oversight by founding a museum in 1987 in a landmark building near the White House. A critic for the Washington Postwrote, "Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the museum's founding president, has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789210037
• ISBN13: 9780789210036
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.2" x 11.3"