The Women Who Dared Art Collection
The ‘Women Who Dared’ is the world's largest privately owned art collection exclusively by women artists. Art from the collection is also featured across Northwell Health hospital locations.
Celebrities including Katy Perry, Gloria Estefan, Arianna Huffington and many more, have created audio and film narrations that reveal the fascinating stories of artists from the collection.
Celebrating the Nursing Profession:
The ‘Women who Dared’ collection consists of over 400 works by female artists, from all 7 continents of the world, spanning 2,500 years.
Thirty years ago, two motivated art collectors and philanthropists, Ms. Sandi Nicholson and her husband Mr. Bill Nicholson, discovered that less than 2% of works exhibited by the world’s leading museums and galleries were by women. This inspired them to assemble the ‘Women Who Dared’ collection as a celebration of the talent, grit and perseverance of women in every field of human endeavor.
About 80% of nurses globally are women. In honor of the nursing profession, and in support of Nurse Heroes, the 'Women Who Dared' collection is now exhibited to the public for the first time.
From the Women Who Dared collection: 'Florence' 1931
By Lyla Marshall Harcoff (1883 -1956)