Women provide the bookends….National Museum Oslo

The National Museum has women at its bookends, an architect Wenche Selmer and an artist Astra Nørregaard. 

On the top level is architect, and on the ground floor artist What is also striking is the number of women artists who often fill entire rooms when in other museums around the western world it is ‘men only’.  

It is  evident that women were artists responsive to the changing artistic movements that reflected the social, political and environmental interests of the times and responded to brush stroke, colour, light and form. The descriptive notes presented the women artists as supportive of other women artists and who often worked as artists in art academies and places of learning.