by wpengine | Aug 9, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Emma Steinkraus, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College Two of my favorite seventeenth-century women artists, Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian, were also excellent naturalists. As I combed through their paintings and prints...
by Erika Gaffney | Aug 7, 2019 | News/Blog
A New Book Announcement Published by Amsterdam University Press, this essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500–1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 30, 2019 | News/Blog
Agneta (or Agnes) Blok, Dutch Mennonite art collector and horticulturalist, as Flora Batava on a commemorative medal by Jan Boskam, 1700. Wikipedia. The organizers seek proposals for papers to fill out an RSA panel (or panels) titled Early...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 28, 2019 | News/Blog
There also have been many experienced women in the field of painting who are still renowned in our time, and who could compete with men. Among them, one excels exceptionally, Judith Leyster, called “the true Leading star in art.” —Theodore...
by wpengine | Jul 20, 2019 | News/Blog
Thoughts on the MIA’s Exhibition of Native American Women Artists Guest post by Elizabeth Sutton, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Northern Iowa A Nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished,...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Judith Leyster (1609–1660), the protagonist of Callaghan’s 2018 novel We notice an exciting new trend in publishing: real women artists from the distant past feature as protagonists in new works of historical fiction, and as subjects of scholarly...
