The National Museum of Women in the Arts receives a bequest of over 60 works | Catch My Job

Works from the collection of Wallace Holladay and Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

The National Museum of Women in the Arts has acquired more than 60 works from the private collection of the institution’s late founders, Wallace Holladay and Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. The will will be displayed in the museum’s expanded gallery, which is set to reopen in 2023 and includes works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay and Eva Hesse. Portrait of a woman in white By French Impressionist Eva Gonzales, the only artist trained by Edouard Manet. “When Mrs. Holladay began collecting with her husband in the 1970s, she made a rare and bold choice to focus on art by women,” said the museum’s director, Susan Fisher Sterling.

Alfred Boucher, Volubilis (1897)

Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine, France

In life, French sculptor Camille Claudel was best known as the partner of Auguste Rodin, whom she met after working in his studio. After the relationship ended, Claudel fell into depression. He became secluded in his studio and was subsequently committed to an asylum with a diagnosis of paranoia.

In 2017, the Musée Camille Claudel opened near Claudel’s former home in Nogent-sur-Seine, a small commune southeast of Paris, with the intention of bringing the focus back to Claudel’s influence as an artist.

The museum has now acquired a marble sculpture created in 1897 by Alfred Boucher (1850–1934), an older artist who was a friend of Claudel’s parents and Rodin, and who taught Claudel the craft of sculpture from the age of 12. For £160,000 from London’s Bowman Sculpture Gallery, the work is from Boucher’s series of marble sculptures. volubilis, which means “included” in Latin, and depicts a naked woman bent to avert her eyes from the artist’s gaze, a gesture Claudel would later explore in her own artwork.

Caleb Brooks, Session series: What are you watching?, earlier (2020)

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

As part of an initiative designed to strengthen the representation of trans and non-binary artists in its permanent collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a portrait Session series: What are you watching?, earlier, US-born, UK-based artist Khaleb Brooks, former artist in residence at London’s Tate Modern. An image group from the series headlines the show Decriminalized Future From February to May at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, which advocated “the complete decriminalization of sex work”, took the “politicized sex worker organization” as a starting point. Brooks’ first major solo museum show, Song of JupiterAt the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool until 30 October.