by Erika Gaffney | Dec 28, 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. What do fans of...
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...
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...
