by Erika Gaffney | Aug 1, 2026 | News/Blog
Here we list children’s books about women artists—from the distant past to the present—published in 2025 or later. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be on this list, please let us know by...
by Erika Gaffney | Aug 1, 2026 | News/Blog
Here we list children’s books about women artists—from the distant past to the present—published from around the time of Art Herstory’s launch in 2018, to 2024. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 13, 2026 | News/Blog
Seventy-two years ago today, on July 13, 1954, iconic painter Frida Kahlo departed this mortal sphere. While the artist is no longer physically with us, her legacy endures in an extraordinary variety of manifestations across twenty-first century culture....
by Erika Gaffney | Jun 16, 2026 | News/Blog
Just in time for summer reading, we present a list of recent fiction books about specific, mostly historic women artists—from the distant past to the 21st century. This post includes novels published from 2018, the year of Art Herstory’s inception, to the...
by artherstory | Jun 11, 2026 | News/Blog
Guest post by Gurpreet Sihat, art writer The history of Mughal painting is usually told through the names of great male artists. But look closer, and a small group of women emerge from the spaces between them. The seventeenth-century Muraqqa-e-Gulshan, an imperial...
by Erika Gaffney | May 12, 2026 | News/Blog
Julia McEntee Dillon and Blanche Lazzell by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Left: Bouquet in Chinese Jar, c. 1910, by Julia McEntee Dillon; Friends of Historic KingstonRight: The White Petunia, block cut 1932, printed 1954, by Blanche Lazzell;...
