The Women's Art Collection

It includes over 600 works by artists of international renown and is now considered to be one of the largest and most significant collections of contemporary art by women in the world.

The modernist College buildings were completed in 1965 by Chamberlain, Powell and Bon and are Grade II* listed.

This spurred the hope that the College might develop a permanent collection of 20th-century art by women, to inspire the female students who would live among it.

In 1992, Valerie Pearl, the President of New Hall, wrote to 100 of the leading women artists in Britain and received some 75 donations in return.

[4] The collection includes works by: In 2005, Maggi Hambling's painting Gulf Women Prepare for War (1986) was covered on request of a US Navy officer as a condition of a private booking for the US military.