Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Whose Art Museum Promoted Women, Dies at 98
She used her networking skills and social connections to establish the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, the first of its kind.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay in 2014. She opened the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1987 after recognizing that the contributions of female artists had been ignored for too long.Credit.Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post, via Getty Images
March 11, 2021
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who used her social connections, organizational acumen and personal collection of hundreds of works by female painters to establish the country’s first museum dedicated to women in the arts, died on Saturday at her home in Washington. She was 98.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder of National Museum of Women in the Arts, dies
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Photo: Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post via Getty Images.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the first and only museum solely dedicated to championing women through the arts, died on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at the age of 98 in Washington, D.C.
Against tremendous odds and with dedication, drive and a singular vision, Holladay created a museum to help alleviate the underrepresentation of women artists in museums and galleries worldwide.
For nearly 40 years, Wilhelmina Holladay has been the guiding light of our museum, said Director Susan Fisher Sterling. Mrs. Holladay knew the power of art and the importance of women in art and in the world. Her foresight in recognizing women artists of the past and championing women artists of the present by creating a new museum was visionaryeven revolutionary
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Founder of National Museum of Women in the Arts, Remembered
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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the first and only museum solely dedicated to championing women through the arts, died on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at the age of 98 in Washington, D.C.
Against tremendous odds and with dedication, drive and a singular vision, Holladay created a museum to help alleviate the underrepresentation of women artists in museums and galleries worldwide.
“For nearly 40 years, Wilhelmina Holladay has been the guiding light of our museum,” said Director Susan Fisher Sterling. “Mrs. Holladay knew the power of art and the importance of women in art and in the world. Her foresight in recognizing women artists of the past and championing women artists of the present by creating a new museum was visionary even revolutionary for the time. Her actions signaled