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It was an institution whose time seemed to have come-a museum for art by women.1 It was going to mean recognition for women’s achievements, a celebration of their history, a retort to centuries of ignorance and dismissal; it was going to redress the inequities that women still face in the art world. But even before the museum opened in 1987, while it was still being planned, in the early 1980s, the controversy began. Were women being hailed or condemned by a sex-segregated institution? Had too many compromises been made to fund the museum? Was its collection aesthetically adequate? The answers have streamed on and on, combative and impassioned. Meanwhile, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) garnered what may be the most considerable constituency, in terms of both numbers and dedication, of any American museum its size.
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