by wpengine | Jul 8, 2019 | News/Blog
A Curator’s Perspective Guest post by Judith W. Mann, Curator of European Art to 1800, the Saint Louis Art Museum On the occasion of what would have been Artemisia Gentileschi’s 426th birthday (July 8), it is worth reflecting on events of the last year that...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 7, 2019 | News/Blog
Judith Leyster’s Boy Playing the Flute Art Herstory note card,on display in the Clark’s museum shop. Art Herstory happily welcomes the Clark Art Institute as a retail partner. If you live in the Williamstown area or visit there this summer, please ask for...
by wpengine | Jun 30, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Laura Gowing, Professor of Early Modern History, King’s College London The exhibition Bright Souls: The Forgotten Story of Britain’s First Female Artists, just opened in London’s Connaught Street. The show puts together for the first time...
by wpengine | Jun 26, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Julia Dabbs, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota, Morris A very laudable goal of Erika Gaffney’s wonderful Art Herstory note cards is to help inform a broader audience about the achievements of historical women artists. But how...
by wpengine | Jun 8, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Katherine A. McIver, Professor Emerita of Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham Thinking about the upcoming exhibition at the Prado, Madrid (October 2019) celebrating the Renaissance women artists Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625) and Lavinia...
by Erika Gaffney | Jun 3, 2019 | News/Blog
A Tribute to “the Amsterdam Pallas” Posy of flowers, with a red admiral butterfly, on a marble ledge, c. 1700, by Rachel Ruysch. Private collection; source, Wikimedia. Three hundred fifty-five years ago on this day, June 3, Rachel Ruysch was baptized in...
