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Founded in 1966 as the Rutgers University Art Gallery, the museum was expanded and renamed the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in 1983. Over the past 20 years the galleries have been expanded four more times, and today, with 35,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Zimmerli is one of the largest university art museums in the country. The museum's extensive concentrations include 19th-century French graphics and sculpture, Japonisme, Russian and Soviet Nonconformist art, 20th-century American art, and contemporary printmaking.
 

A Group of One's Own: Women's Visual Arts Organizations in America
Sep 14, 2008 - Jan 07, 2009
This exhibition will present a selective historical survey of organizations and groups that represented, promoted and displayed visual art by women in the United States. The organizations to be featured had memberships comprising women artists—often professional, sometimes "amateur,"—who created visual art in many media, including both the fine and applied arts. Significant institutions and exhibition spaces that showed art exclusively by women will also be represented. As a whole, the exhibition will offer visual art and related textual and documentary materials, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, on groups that sought to showcase the achievements of women in the visual arts, and attempted to correct the difficulties frequently faced by women in gaining recognition and equity in museums, art schools, and the marketplace.

Among the groups represented are: The National Association of Women Artists (founded in New York City), The Sketch Club of San Francisco, the Women's Building at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, Women Painters of Washington (Washington State), Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia), A.I.R. Gallery (New York), and Womanhouse (Los Angeles).