by wpengine | Mar 10, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Margaretta S. Frederick, Delaware Art Museum Figure 1. Marie Spartali Stillman, The Last Sight of Fiammetta, 1876. Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic, 82 x 62 cm. Bonhams, 21 September 2022, lot #50. A Long-Lost Painting Reappears In fall...
by wpengine | Mar 6, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Erika Piola, Library Company of Philadelphia Figure 1. Sarah Mapps Douglass, “A token of love from me, to thee,” c. 1833. Watercolor and gouache. Amy Matilda Cassey Album, Library Company of Philadelphia. At her death in 1882,...
by Erika Gaffney | Jan 18, 2023 | 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 fourth quarter of 2022. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that...
by artherstory | Dec 29, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, Fem Art Collection To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and Musée d’Orsay in Paris collaborated to organize an exhibition in her honor. Bordeaux was too far away but on...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 27, 2022 | News/Blog
Maria Hadfield Cosway has recently closed at the Fondazione Maria Cosway. On January 15, Sofonisba—History’s Forgotten Miracle closes at Nivaagaards Malerisamling and Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature closes at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. So, what do fans...
by wpengine | Dec 9, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sarah Hardy, the De Morgan Foundation Mary Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, was born in London on 30 August 1855 to very well-to-do parents. Her mother, Anna, was the daughter of Walter Spencer-Stanhope of Cannon Hall in Yorkshire, and her father...
