Women Painters of Washington

The Women Painters of Washington was organized in 1930 by six female artists to offer support and professional opportunities for women artists in Washington state. This active and thriving organization has had over 1000 members since its founding.

Tacoma Art Museum owns a group of work by a number of the founders and early members of the WPW who were also some of the first practicioners of modernist painting styles in the region.

The archive for the group is housed at the University of Washington Libraries in Special Collections and Manuscripts.