Frustrated that women artists were invisible in art history books (written, mainly, by men), Wilhelmina Holladay and her husband began collecting works of art by women – and then, in 1987, she helped found the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the first of its kind. Bruce Morton reported on the museum's gala opening in this "Sunday Morning" report originally aired on April 12, 1987.
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