by Erika Gaffney | Jul 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Judith Leyster (1609–1660), the protagonist of Callaghan’s 2018 novel We notice an exciting new trend in publishing: real women artists from the distant past feature as protagonists in new works of historical fiction, and as subjects of scholarly...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 7, 2019 | News/Blog
Judith Leyster’s Boy Playing the Flute Art Herstory note card,on display in the Clark’s museum shop. Art Herstory happily welcomes the Clark Art Institute as a retail partner. If you live in the Williamstown area or visit there this summer, please ask for...
by Erika Gaffney | Jun 3, 2019 | News/Blog
A Tribute to “the Amsterdam Pallas” Posy of flowers, with a red admiral butterfly, on a marble ledge, c. 1700, by Rachel Ruysch. Private collection; source, Wikimedia. Three hundred fifty-five years ago on this day, June 3, Rachel Ruysch was baptized in...
by Erika Gaffney | May 22, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1653), the protagonist of McCullough’s novel-in-verse We notice an exciting trend in fiction publishing over the course of the past year: women artists, whose paintings still exist today, are protagonists in several...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog
Art Herstory note cards on display at the University of Northern Iowa Bookstore. Photo credit: Angie Sorrell, UNI Bookstore. We welcome our new retail partner, the UNI Bookstore, and congratulate them on the beautiful and imaginative display shown above. The store...
