Archives of Women Artists

The Archives of Women Artists at the National Museum of Women in the Arts serves as a locus of primary-source research for curators, scholars, and students performing research on women’s contributions to the arts.

Artist Files

Search to see if the artist you’re studying is included: these files contain women artists' resumes, correspondence, catalogues, artwork reproductions, reviews, and more.
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Manuscripts

Find out whose personal papers are at NMWA: this collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other unique materials from the in-depth collections of women artists.
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Digital Archives

The library  is curating web archive collections using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It service.  The two collections are:
NMWA Websites
Contemporary Women Artists on the Web