“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia.
In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, or FAMM), the American Federation of the Arts (AFA) has arranged the next best thing: a blockbuster touring exhibition about women artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, featuring some of the highlights of the FAMM collection.
“A lot of these are tremendously important pictures, and the wider public should be able to see them,” Levett said. “It’s the best way right now in the U.S. of seeing the whole gamut of the major female painters of 1950s New York, all in the one space, all in one show.”
“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” is currently on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Featuring close to 50 works by 32 artists, ranging from the late 1930s to 1977, the exhibition showcases the full arc of the Abstract Expressionist movement. It makes the case that women played a pivotal role in this influential period of art history, working alongside their more celebrated male peers, and just as creative and groundbreaking.
— Sarah Cascone, Artnet News
February 20, 2026
