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Release Founded to redefine traditional histories of art, the
National Museum of Women in the Arts is the only museum solely
dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women in the
visual, performing, and literary arts. The museum honors women
artists of the past, promotes the accomplishments of women
artists of the present, and assures the place of women artists
in the future. While traveling abroad, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
and her husband, Wallace F. Holladay, admired a 17th-century
still-life by Flemish painter Clara Peeters. Upon their return
to the U.S., the Holladays sought information on Peeters, but
found that the definitive art history text (H.W. Janson’s
History of Art) made no reference to her, or any other female
artist. The Holladays began amassing works by women artists in
the 1960s, establishing what would become the core of the
museum’s collection. Mrs. Holladay incorporated the National
Museum of Women in the Arts in 1981 as a