Susie M. Barstow: Redefining the Hudson River School

Guest post by Nancy Siegel, Towson University Figure 1. Susie Barstow Skelding, Photograph of Susie M. Barstow in her Brooklyn Studio, 1891, 5 x 7 in. Private Collection.  An artist of the Hudson River School, Susanna (Susie) Moore Barstow (1836–1923) was raised...

Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918)

A celebrated portraitist returns to Delft Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, www.ienvanderpol.nl Thérèse Schwartze, Self-portrait, with black hat and glasses, 1917, paper, 55.1 × 47.4 cm; Rijksmuseum This exhibition of the work of a celebrated nineteenth-century...

Happy Birthday, Fidelia Bridges!

Guest post by Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, CUNY On this day—May 19th—in 1834 the best-selling female artist and illustrator in post-Civil War United States was born. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923) forged an artistic career...