Women and the Art of Flower Painting

Guest post by Ariane van Suchtelen, Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands In 2022 the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague celebrates its 200th anniversary with In Full Bloom, a festive exhibition about Dutch and Flemish flower still lifes of the seventeenth...

Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918)

A celebrated portraitist returns to Delft Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, www.ienvanderpol.nl Thérèse Schwartze, Self-portrait, with black hat and glasses, 1917, paper, 55.1 × 47.4 cm; Rijksmuseum This exhibition of the work of a celebrated nineteenth-century...

Marie Laurencin and the Autonomy of Self-Representation

Guest post by Mary Creed Fig. 1. Marie Laurencin, Self-Portrait, 1906. Colored pencil and pencil on notebook paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In an attempt to tell a more inclusive story of modern art,...