by artherstory | Jun 17, 2025 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Under any circumstance, it is a rare treat to encounter the art of American painter Emily Cole (1843–1913). To view it on the very grounds where the artist lived and worked is especially poignant. In this context, Cole’s...
by artherstory | Aug 12, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kristen Marchetti, Cole Fellow 2022–2023 Sarah Cole (1805–1857) was an accomplished American artist known for her paintings, etchings, and drawings. Like her brother Thomas Cole, an influential figure in the Hudson River School, she worked in...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 12, 2023 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the second quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. Do you know of...
by artherstory | Jul 6, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Lili R. Ott Figure 1. Late 19th-century hand-colored photograph of Laura Seymour Atwood Hasbrouck (1841–1900). 4-1/2 in. by 3-1/4 in. Family archive. A Woman Artist of the Hudson River School Laura Seymour Hasbrouck is one of the unsung women...
by artherstory | Mar 6, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Erika Piola, Library Company of Philadelphia Figure 1. Sarah Mapps Douglass, “A token of love from me, to thee,” c. 1833. Watercolor and gouache. Amy Matilda Cassey Album, Library Company of Philadelphia. At her death in 1882,...
