by wpengine | Mar 31, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Drēma Drudge, author of the new novel Victorine Olympia, 1863, by Édouard Manet. Held at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; source, Wikipedia. When I first encountered Victorine Meurent, it was her as Olympia in Édouard Manet’s iconic...
by wpengine | Mar 25, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ann Sylph, Librarian at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Both art and science help people to reconnect with nature and to take action to protect it. The value of art in communicating...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the first quarter of this year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be on this list, please let us...
by wpengine | Mar 9, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kathleen G. Arthur, Professor Emerita, James Madison University Caterina Vigri (1413–1463) is the best-known Italian convent artist among a half-dozen fifteenth-century examples. On her saint’s day, March 9, we remember her accomplishments as a...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 8, 2020 | News/Blog
The initial sub-series profiles female artists of the Renaissance and Baroque Allegory of Fame, c. 1630–35, by Artemisia Gentileschi. The Bennett Collection. Illuminating Women Artists, published by London-based publisher Lund Humphries, launches at a critical moment...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 4, 2020 | News/Blog
Look for Female Old Master stationery at the AIC The Women’s History Month special display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop. Art Herstory six-packs are on the left, just above the red Faith Ringgold book! The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop is...