by artherstory | Aug 20, 2024 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Installation view of main room of Women Artists on Cape Ann 1870–1970. Author photo. Since the inception of Art Herstory, Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum (CAM) has been on your correspondent’s radar. The institution...
by artherstory | Jun 30, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Rowena Loverance, independent scholar, London Sylvia Shaw Judson was a professional sculptor who specialized in depicting children and animals. In midlife, however, she became a Quaker, and her career took a dramatic turn. Quaker women artists: the...
by artherstory | May 9, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Christopher Fauske, Salem State University Dieppe, by Nancy Sharp, 1955, oil on canvas, 55 x 67cm; private collection Introduction The life and work of British artist Nancy Sharp (1909–2001) coincides almost perfectly with the past 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...
