by Erika Gaffney | Jul 27, 2022 | News/Blog
Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. In 2021, we presented Art Herstory’s first botanical holiday card: an amaryllis by Priscilla Susan Bury, a British artist of the nineteenth century....
by wpengine | Jul 26, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alice Price, Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture Figure 1: Anna Ancher, A Vaccination, 1899, oil on canvas, 73 cm x 90 cm, Skagens Museum, Denmark, SKM 1944. Danish audiences celebrate the Danish painter Anna Brøndum Ancher...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 10, 2022 | 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 second quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of...
by wpengine | Jul 5, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows Although rarely acknowledged or discussed in these terms, the period from 1760 to 1830 was a watershed moment for women artists in Britain and France. In fact, it was in both nations in these exact...
by wpengine | May 24, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Julia Dabbs, University of Minnesota, Morris “Concord people will be amazed by it.” So wrote artist and author May Alcott Nieriker (1840–1879), youngest sister of famed author Louisa May Alcott, in an 1877 letter to her family. She was...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2022 | News/Blog
This Spring, Art Herstory is excited to announce eight new note card designs! Two artists—Clara Peeters and Rachel Ruysch—make a repeat appearance. But with this year’s card additions we introduce six “new” female Old Masters: Rosalba Carriera,...
