Linda Nochlin: "Consider the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary"

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National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Wilhelmina C. and Wallace F. Holladay began collecting art in the 1960s, focusing on art created by women. Their collection became the core of the institution's permanent collection. In the spring of 1987, NMWA opened with the inaugural exhibition American Women Artists, 1830-1930.

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Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro
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Judy Chicago is famous for her 1970s feminist artwork such as The Dinner Party. Another feminist artist, Miriam Shapiro, created works like Dollhouse which showed aspects of women's experiences.

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Dorothy Richardson
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Dorothy Richardson wrote a thirteen novel sequence Pilgrimage, considered to be one of the great 20th century works of modernist and feminist literature in English. Her writing assumes the importance of female experiences as a subject for literature.

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The Great Depression
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The Great Depression hit the US economy during the 1930s. In 1933, 25% of all workers were completely out of work. Black and white photographs capture the feeling of the decade.

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Norman Rockwell
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Norman Rockwell’s paintings evoke love of country, small town values, children growing up, unlikely heroes, acts of imagination, and life’s ironies. The Smithsonian American Art Museum showed an exhibition entitled Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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James Agee wrote Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book first published in 1941 in the United States. Photographer Walker Evans took the black and white photographs that complement the text.

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Doll House
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Carrie Stettheimer created Stettheimer Doll House in the 1920s. It is now owned by the Museum of the City of New York.

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Elle at the Centre Pompidou
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Paris' Georges Pompidou Center hosted a major exhibition elles@centrepompidou entirely devoted to woman artists.

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Channels: American ArtWomen Artists
Artists: Mary Cassatt

Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, spoke at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on November 18, 2009 as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art.

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