by Erika Gaffney | Oct 6, 2024 | News/Blog
Each year since 2019, Art Herstory has introduced a Christmas and/or holiday card featuring (of course!) a work by a historic woman artist. For the last few years, our holiday cards have featured botanical themes. This. year, we return to the religious theme of our...
by artherstory | Aug 29, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kathryn Waters, DPhil student, Kellogg College, Oxford Installation view of Now You See Us at Tate Britain, Author photo The current Tate Britain exhibition Now You See Us is mammoth, spanning 400 years. It provides over a hundred...
by artherstory | Aug 20, 2024 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Installation view of main room of Women Artists on Cape Ann 1870–1970. Author photo. Since the inception of Art Herstory, Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum (CAM) has been on your correspondent’s radar. The institution...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 31, 2024 | 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. Do you know of...
by artherstory | Jul 30, 2024 | News/Blog
“Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi as Saint Catherine” or “Self-portrait”? Guest Post by Kali Schliewenz, Art History student, University of Cologne The Curious Case of Maddalena Corvina’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria While visiting the exhibition...
by artherstory | Jun 30, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Rowena Loverance, independent scholar, London Sylvia Shaw Judson was a professional sculptor who specialized in depicting children and animals. In midlife, however, she became a Quaker, and her career took a dramatic turn. Quaker women artists: the...
