Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Tiny Folio)

"Museum of Women in the Arts shrinks to fit a stocking with Women Artists…Approximately 320 beautiful pages survey the history of art by women in every medium." — AmericanStyle Magazine

Moving Rose This is a beautiful and moving little book. I slip it in my purse and when I'm waiting I take it out and fall into the art work. It is a place of healing.

Prior to the establishment of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the work of great women artists had been ignored, forgotten, or denied; they had been largely left out of museums and histories of art.Founded in 1987 by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts boasts a growing membership that is among the top ten in the world. The museum's multifaceted treasures include paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, and crafts produced over the past five centuries by an international array of women artists.Included here, in full color, are works by Lavinia Fontana, Judith Leyster, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Hester B