by artherstory | Jun 27, 2025 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Two and a half years in the planning, A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 is well worth The Clark team’s considerable time and effort. According to exhibition curator Alexis Goodin, The Clark’s...
by artherstory | Jun 6, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Hannah Lyons, Curator of the Art Collection, the University of Reading Feature image. Bust-length portrait of a young woman, head turned to the right, by Minnie Jane Hardman, c. 1884–89. The University of Reading Art Collection. On 13 March 1883, the...
by artherstory | May 16, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Amy Lim, Curator of the Faringdon Collection, Buscot Park, Oxfordshire Introduction The Tate Britain exhibition Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520–1920 (16 May–13 October 2024) examines the ways in which women artists navigated a...
by artherstory | Mar 25, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Thomas Cooper, University of Cambridge Figure 1: Portrait photograph of May Morris by George Charles Beresford, 1909–10. William Morris Gallery, P644. On this day, one hundred years ago in 1923, the Arts and Crafts luminary May Morris (1862–1938;...
by artherstory | Mar 10, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Margaretta S. Frederick, Delaware Art Museum Figure 1. Marie Spartali Stillman, The Last Sight of Fiammetta, 1876. Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic, 82 x 62 cm. Bonhams, 21 September 2022, lot #50. A Long-Lost Painting Reappears In fall...