by Erika Gaffney | Jan 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Fruit and Flowers, c. 1630, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Orsola Maddalena Caccia is now at the Met! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired three works by the seventeenth-century Italian artist-nun. Two of the paintings are still...
by wpengine | Jan 5, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Lisa Kirch, University of North Alabama Figure 1. Kitten’s Game, by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, c. 1860–78, oil on panel, 32.8 x 45.2 cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. Introduction: Following Women Artists across the Year Its tip vermilion, a cigar glows...
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...
