by Erika Gaffney | Nov 27, 2020 | News/Blog
Additions in November 2020 to Art Herstory’s Note Card Line This month, Art Herstory is excited to launch six new note card designs! Some of these cards present new works by early modern women artists who are already represented in the collection. And others...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 20, 2020 | News/Blog
Art Herstory is humbly grateful to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG), which has awarded its 2020 Digital Scholarship, New Media, and Art Award to the Art Herstory website. Praise from the SSEMWG Awards Committee The citation letter...
by wpengine | Nov 17, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Isabel Gilmour, Bachelor of Arts Candidate in Art History, Columbia University The unabashed and open expression of one’s sexual desire is still taboo in American society. But with her male landscapes that communicate her erotic desire for the male...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 12, 2020 | News/Blog
#BeAPatron on Sunday, November 29—or any time! The Barnes Foundation. Photo courtesy of museumstoresunday.org. Now in its fourth consecutive year, Museum Store Sunday has become an event we look forward to all year long. Museum gift shops around the world join forces...
by wpengine | Nov 2, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Adelina Modesti, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Fig. 1. Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, signed and dated “ELISAB.TA SIRANI F. 1658.” Moscow, Pushkin Museum. Painted for “Signor Cavazza, notary of the bishopric.”...
by wpengine | Oct 27, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sheila McTighe, The Courtauld Institute of Art Threatened by pandemic closure but rescued to great acclaim, this exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi’s work promises to be a turning point in the appreciation of early modern women artists. How will it...
