by wpengine | Dec 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kelsey Brosnan, PhD in Art History, Rutgers University On December 12, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its European Paintings galleries, largely closed to the public for the past two years. One of the newly reinstalled spaces...
by wpengine | Dec 18, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris A. Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows In July 2020, an oil painting appeared on the art market that had long been thought lost (fig. 1). A medium-sized canvas, 111 x 145 centimeters (3.6 x 4.7 feet), it depicted a sinuous woman in white,...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 16, 2020 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new publications—including games as well as books!—about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the fourth quarter of this calendar year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by wpengine | Dec 5, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Catherine Powell, University of Texas at Austin & Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society Figure 1. Alida Withoos, Plant Datura Fastuosa Lin., 1670–1715, brush, 33.2 × 22.5 cm. Rijksmuseum. Alida Withoos thrived as still life...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 28, 2020 | News/Blog
Here at Art Herstory, we love to showcase works by history’s women artists. And we love to see other organizations do the same! With that in mind, this year we present the first-ever Art Herstory Women Artists Favorite Things List. (It is along the lines of...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 27, 2020 | News/Blog
Just in time for the holiday season, Art Herstory launches two new items to celebrate history’s women artists. The first is an Artemisia Gentileschi-themed magnet/magnetic-bookmark combination. And the other is a Lavinia Fontana porcelain ornament. Either—or...
