by artherstory | Nov 8, 2023 | News/Blog
A New Acquisition for the National Gallery of Ireland Guest post by Lizzie Marx, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland An Animate Still Life In 1742, when Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch was 78 or 79, she painted the delightful...
by artherstory | Oct 19, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Victor Sande-Aneiros, art historian and graduate of The Warburg Institute Last month, seventeenth-century Bolognese painter Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665) received her first solo exhibition outside Italy in New York’s Robert...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 18, 2023 | News/Blog
Art Herstory’s newest store partner is the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) Shop! These cards complement an important new BMA exhibition—Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400–1800. From royal portraits and devotional sculptures to embroidered...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 10, 2023 | News/Blog
We are pleased and proud to announce this year’s Art Herstory holiday card! Beginning in 2019, each year we have introduced a holiday card featuring (of course!) a work by a historic woman artist. This year’s card features a work by a nineteenth-century...
by artherstory | Oct 7, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Newberry Library Rarely does a major cultural institution host an exhibition for an artist who is not already represented in its collections. Even more rarely does such an exhibition feature a female artist. When I walked into the...
by Erika Gaffney | Sep 25, 2023 | News/Blog
A modern woman artist returns to Providence, 100 years on Installation view of the Esther Pressoir “pod” now on view at RISD Museum, Providence, RI One century after attaining her art degree, Esther Estelle Pressoir (1902–1986) returns to the Rhode Island...
