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...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 26, 2019 | News/Blog
We are thrilled that the National Gallery Shops in Washington, DC now carry Art Herstory note cards! There you will find these cards, packaged for individual purchase: Judith Leyster, Boy Playing the Flute (Nationalmuseum, Sweden)Clara Peeters, Still Life with...
by wpengine | Apr 21, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A decade after Linda Nochlin posed her irreverent and provocative question, “Why are there no great women artists?” (Art...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 14, 2019 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Almost 100 years ago, Virginia Woolf famously speculated that if Shakespeare had had a sister of equal genius, she would have suffered in obscurity because of her gender—and the phrase “Shakespeare’s Sister” entered our cultural...
