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...
by wpengine | Feb 11, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Anastazja Buttitta, Curator, the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem Poster for Warp and Weft, an exhibition presented at the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art from July 22, 2019 to January 20, 2020. The life of Jewish women in Italy...
by wpengine | Feb 6, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands In 2012, the Mauritshuis in The Hague managed to acquire a particularly appealing painting by Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels (Fig. 1). Fig. 1,...
