by Erika Gaffney | Apr 29, 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 first quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. Do you know of other...
by artherstory | Apr 29, 2025 | News/Blog
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...
by artherstory | Apr 12, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sylvia Barbara Soberton, author, independent researcher and art historian The Horenbouts, a family of Flemish painters, came to England in the 1520s to work at the court of Henry VIII. By that time Gerard was already established as a skilled artist. He...
by artherstory | Apr 8, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Rebekah Hoke Brown, Indiana University Bloomington Installation view of Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light, Eskenazi Museum of Art. Author photo. This February, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana...
by artherstory | Mar 28, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alessia Motti, Art History student, La Sapienza University of Rome Suor Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a nun-artist in the convent of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio. She is one of the few female artists mentioned in Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists....
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 28, 2025 | News/Blog
Great news for DC-area residents and visitors who shop downtown: Smithsonian’s Natural History and American History museum stores carry products that reproduce art by Maria Sibylla Merian! And, excitingly—Art Herstory’s Merian note card wallet is among the...
