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Reclaiming history – The National Museum of Women in the Arts

— July 2012

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Eulabee Dix, Betty Sadler, 1936, miniature watercolour on ivory © NMWA

Jenny Kingsley explores a ground-breaking institution – the first of its kind


Would you ever guess that the handsome, neoclassical home of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington DC was once the headquarters of the Freemasons – an historic and powerful male secret society? (There are women Freemasons but they are relatively few and somewhat of an oddity.) Moreover, your guess is that much more unlikely as Mrs Wilhelmina Cole Holladay,...

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