by wpengine | Jun 26, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Julia Dabbs, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota, Morris A very laudable goal of Erika Gaffney’s wonderful Art Herstory note cards is to help inform a broader audience about the achievements of historical women artists. But how...
by wpengine | Jun 8, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Katherine A. McIver, Professor Emerita of Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham Thinking about the upcoming exhibition at the Prado, Madrid (October 2019) celebrating the Renaissance women artists Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625) and Lavinia...
by Erika Gaffney | Jun 3, 2019 | News/Blog
A Birthday Tribute to “the Amsterdam Pallas” Posy of flowers, with a red admiral butterfly, on a marble ledge, c. 1700, by Rachel Ruysch. Private collection; source, Wikimedia. Three hundred fifty-five years ago on this day, June 3, Rachel Ruysch was...
by Erika Gaffney | May 22, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Gentileschi (1593–c.1653), the protagonist of McCullough’s novel-in-verse We notice an exciting trend in fiction publishing over the course of the past year: women artists, whose paintings still exist today, are protagonists in several works...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog
Art Herstory note cards on display at the University of Northern Iowa Bookstore. Photo credit: Angie Sorrell, UNI Bookstore. We welcome our new retail partner, the UNI Bookstore, and congratulate them on the beautiful and imaginative display shown above. The store...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog
As promised in a previous blog post (Michelangelo’s Sisters: (Re)Introducing Female Old Masters) here is a post that highlights the names and works of twelve female Old Masters. These dozen names represent only a small percentage of the women who were not only...