The only painting by Frida Kahlo in Washington, D.C., Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, hangs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which describes itself as "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. Its collection of more than 6,000 works by more than 1,000 artists spans the 16th century to the present.
Highlights range from Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun and Mary Cassatt to Alma Woodsey Thomas and Amy Sherald, so visitors can follow women's art across several centuries in one place. The galleries suit anyone interested in artists who have often been overlooked in broader surveys.
Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay incorporated the museum in 1981, and it opened to the public in 1987. It occupies the former Masonic Temple, a building designed by Waddy Butler Wood and listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
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