by Erika Gaffney | Jun 3, 2019 | News/Blog
A Birthday Tribute to “the Amsterdam Pallas” Posy of flowers, with a red admiral butterfly, on a marble ledge, c. 1700, by Rachel Ruysch. Private collection; source, Wikimedia. Three hundred fifty-five years ago on this day, June 3, Rachel Ruysch was...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog
As promised in a previous blog post (Michelangelo’s Sisters: (Re)Introducing Female Old Masters) here is a post that highlights the names and works of twelve female Old Masters. These dozen names represent only a small percentage of the women who were not only...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 26, 2019 | News/Blog
We are thrilled that the National Gallery Shops in Washington, DC now carry Art Herstory note cards! There you will find these cards, packaged for individual purchase: Judith Leyster, Boy Playing the Flute (Nationalmuseum, Sweden)Clara Peeters, Still Life with...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 14, 2019 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Almost 100 years ago, Virginia Woolf famously speculated that if Shakespeare had had a sister of equal genius, she would have suffered in obscurity because of her gender—and the phrase “Shakespeare’s Sister” entered our cultural...
