Rachel Ruysch: The Art of Nature

Guest post by Stephanie Dickey, art historian Feature image: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Promised Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art Picture this. The year is...

The Floral Art of Emily Cole

by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Under any circumstance, it is a rare treat to encounter the art of American painter Emily Cole (1843–1913). To view it on the very grounds where the artist lived and worked is especially poignant. In this context, Cole’s...

Sculpture or Suffrage: Alice Morgan Wright

Guest post by Jennifer Dasal, creator and host of the ArtCurious podcast The proposal of either Sculpture or Suffrage… in all my recollections the two are so involved with each other that I think I shall not be able to extricate them. —Alice Morgan Wright, “Sculpture...