TUSCON, AZ (PNAN) – Currently ongoing at the Tucson Museum of Art, the exhibition, “A Look Back: Works from the Women Artists and the West Show and Sale” began decades ago with an exhibition called Primavera: A Celebration of Women in the Arts. The following year, the exhibit transformed into the first Women Artists and the West Show and Sale.
As time went on, the series continued until 1997, attracting artists throughout the American West and eventually it became the American Women Artists organization, a national identity, continuing to promote and exhibit women’s art throughout the country.
Every year, TMA purchased a work for its permanent collection, expanding its holdings of women artists of the American West. In Look Back, there are works from the shows in TMA’s collection as well as works acquired by private donations.
For more previews of exhibits such as, More Than: Expanding Artist Identities from the American West focuses on works of art created throughout the American West, the U.S. Southwest border, and parts of Canada, viewing how artists embrace various parts of themselves and incorporate these identities into their works of art viewing through March 19, 2023 and New Mexico Moderns: Selections from the Donald L. and Julia B. Graf Collection. These works represent an artistic era marked by abstraction, experimentation, and inspiration from the light, land, and cultures of New Mexico, where Modernism centers on Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque region from the beginning of the twentieth century until the end of the 1970s is also on view through March 19, 2023. For other exhibits and programming see: https://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org