by Erika Gaffney | Oct 25, 2025 | News/Blog
Still relevant after 400 years Though we don’t know with certainty in what year sixteenth-century painter Sofonisba Anguissola was born, we know her death date: November 16, 1625. Thus November 2025 marks a significant anniversary, the 400th since the departure...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 14, 2025 | News/Blog
History’s Dutch and Flemish women artists are having a moment! Currently there are at least three art exhibitions focused on early modern female makers of the Low Countries. Three of these shows incorporate an international traveling component. In addition,...
by Erika Gaffney | Aug 12, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Andrea Sluder West Studio Portrait of Susan H. Bradley, ca. 1889-95; Private collection, Courtesy of the Descendants of Susan H. Bradley A prolific watercolorist, minister’s wife, and charming socialite, American painter Susan H. Bradley (1851–1929) was...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 29, 2025 | News/Blog
Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. This year, with our seventh holiday card, we expand on the botanical art theme. The 2025 holiday card reproduces “Calla and Poincetha” by...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 20, 2025 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the second quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. Do you know of...
