by wpengine | Sep 17, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paula Butterfield, author of La Luministe and other works of historical fiction Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, 1875/80. Art Institute of Chicago. Years after their brief affair, musician Evans Herman wrote a nostalgic poem for Joan...
by Erika Gaffney | Sep 13, 2019 | News/Blog
This month yields a bumper crop of new books about history’s women artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. We list those that have come to our attention, quoting the publisher’s description. If you know of other titles that should be on this...
by wpengine | Sep 10, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nicole E. Cook, Project Coordinator for Academic Partnerships, Philadelphia Museum of Art Gesina ter Borch, Self-Portrait in a Cartouche Crowned with the arms of the Ter Borch family, 1659, with a poem by J.H. Roldanus. Source: Rijksmuseum Getting...
by wpengine | Sep 2, 2019 | News/Blog
American University, Washington, DC, 25–27 September 2020 Self-portrait with Easel, 1640s, by Michaelina Wautier (So. Netherlands, 1617–1689). Held in a private collection; source, Wikimedia. Proposals due by 1 December 2019 The Feminist Art History Conference was...
by Erika Gaffney | Aug 18, 2019 | News/Blog
The National Gallery of Ireland; source, Wikipedia. According to an article published on August 11, 2019 in The Sunday Times of London, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has decided to prioritize the acquisition of works by female artists. The NGI’s decision...
by wpengine | Aug 9, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Emma Steinkraus, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College Two of my favorite seventeenth-century women artists, Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian, were also excellent naturalists. As I combed through their paintings and prints...
