by artherstory | May 30, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nancy Siegel, Towson University Figure 1. Susie Barstow Skelding, Photograph of Susie M. Barstow in her Brooklyn Studio, 1891, 5 x 7 in. Private Collection. An artist of the Hudson River School, Susanna (Susie) Moore Barstow (1836–1923) was raised...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 27, 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 first quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. Do you know of other...
by wpengine | Apr 11, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nelleke de Vries, Rijksmuseum Twenthe From 11 February until 11 June 2023, Rijksmuseum Twenthe hosts the exhibition Sofonisba Anguissola: Portraitist of the Renaissance, on the noblewoman and artist Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625). This is the...
by artherstory | Mar 25, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Thomas Cooper, University of Cambridge Figure 1: Portrait photograph of May Morris by George Charles Beresford, 1909–10. William Morris Gallery, P644. On this day, one hundred years ago in 1923, the Arts and Crafts luminary May Morris (1862–1938;...
by artherstory | 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 artherstory | 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,...
