by Erika Gaffney | May 17, 2021 | News/Blog
In a previous Art Herstory post, we highlighted one dozen women artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, we noted that the twelve painters and sculptors in that list represented only a small percentage of female makers of centuries...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 20, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jacqueline Thalmann, Christ Church, Oxford I recently wrote an Art Herstory guest post about two drawings by Elisabetta Sirani—a Self-Portrait and a Head of a Madonna. This took me back to the fascinating subject of self-portraiture,...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 14, 2021 | News/Blog
On March 8, International Women’s Day, London-based art books publisher Lund Humphries and Getty Publications in Los Angeles announced a collaborative venture. The two art-book publishers are combining forces over “Illuminating Women Artists,” a new...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 13, 2021 | News/Blog
Coinciding with International Women’s Day 2021, the Rijksmuseum puts works by women artists on permanent display in its most prominent gallery Gallery caption: Staff hang work by Judith Leyster, Gesina ter Borch, and Rachel Ruysch in the Rijksmuseum’s...
by Erika Gaffney | Feb 26, 2021 | News/Blog
Front covers of the five new portrait-mode Art Herstory note card designs, introduced in February 2021. Just in time for Women’s History Month, Art Herstory is excited to launch five new note card designs! Some of the cards present new works by early modern...
