by Erika Gaffney | Nov 24, 2022 | News/Blog
Following on from the Art Herstory “Favorite Things” lists of the previous two years, we present the 2022 round-up of gifts that relate to our favorite theme. Note that not all products are necessarily available in every market. But first, this Public...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 16, 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 third quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
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 M. Rudy Price, independent scholar 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 (1859–1935) for her vibrant...
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...