by wpengine | Sep 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed, The Morgan Library & Museum Fig. 1. Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1727. Pastel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Painter of the King’s Garden This week—September 6, specifically—marks the 241st anniversary of the...
by wpengine | Sep 3, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Oliver Tostmann, The Wadsworth Atheneum This late September, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, will present By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800. The exhibition, co-organized with...
by wpengine | Aug 17, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alexandra Letvin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College A Black man looks out from an ultramarine blue background. His hair is grown out, and he wears a red jacket adorned with gold braids and a lace collar. The precision with which the man’s...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 25, 2021 | News/Blog
Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. This year, for the first time, the Art Herstory holiday card is not by a female Old Master, nor does it reproduce a Nativity. We present the first Art...
by wpengine | Jul 23, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Christina K. Lindeman, University of South Alabama Self-portrait, 1761, by Anna Dorothea Therbusch. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; source, Wikipedia. Anna Dorothea Therbusch, born Anna Dorothea Lisiewska on July 23, 1721, is not a household name. However, her...
by wpengine | Jul 16, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Camille Nouhant Figure 1. Outside view of the Castello del Buonconsiglio, in front of which the exhibition poster stands. The limitations of group exhibitions for women artists Much has been done for female artists, ever since the pioneering...
