by wpengine | Oct 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Aoife Brady, National Gallery of Ireland In 1872, just eight years after first opening its doors, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) purchased The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 17, 2021 | News/Blog
Following on from last year’s first-ever Art Herstory Women Artists Favorite Things List, we present the 2021 round-up of our favorite things to do with female artists. But first, this note: Many of the items listed below are available from museum stores....
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 17, 2021 | News/Blog
Exciting news, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art shop now carries Art Herstory wares! Here’s the list of Art Herstory items shoppers will find in this wonderfully curated emporium: Italian Women Artists Boxed Note Cards, Set of 6; Artemisia Gentileschi Magnet and...
by wpengine | Sep 28, 2021 | News/Blog
Blurbs compiled by Ceci Williams, Art Herstory Intern 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...
by wpengine | Sep 28, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Silvano Levy, University of Hull Dalla Husband (Canadian, 1899–1943), Machinist, n.d., oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Acquired with the assistance of a repatriation grant from the Government of Canada through the...
by wpengine | Sep 22, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Senior Curator and Department Head of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Baltimore Museum of Art In 2020, as part of a year-long institutional initiative to purchase only art made by women, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)...