by wpengine | Mar 17, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, CUNY Fig. 1, Eliza Pratt Greatorex, drawn from a photograph for The Illustrated Weekly. St. Patrick’s Day offers the opportunity to pause and ponder its origins and relations to Irish American art and...
by wpengine | Jan 27, 2022 | News/Blog
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...
by wpengine | May 19, 2021 | News/Blog
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...
by wpengine | Jan 5, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Lisa Kirch, University of North Alabama Figure 1. Kitten’s Game, by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, c. 1860–78, oil on panel, 32.8 x 45.2 cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. Introduction: Following Women Artists across the Year Its tip vermilion, a cigar glows...
