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.