Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (1922-2021)
March 9 2021
Picture: Abbeville Press
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Obituaries have appeared in the press today to celebrate the contribution of the recently deceased collector Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (1922-2021). It is said that it was Holladay's frustration, after being unable to find any further information on the seventeenth century painter Clara Peeters, that spurred on her interest in trying to raise more general awareness of women artists. She and her husband Wallace F. Holladay began amassing a collection of around 500 works by women, spanning from the Renaissance to the present day. They later founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington in the year 1987.
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