by Erika Gaffney | Jul 27, 2022 | News/Blog
Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. In 2021, we presented Art Herstory’s first botanical holiday card: an amaryllis by Priscilla Susan Bury, a British artist of the nineteenth century....
by wpengine | Apr 28, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, University of St. Andrews Fig. 1: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Umbella Corallina, punctata, similis, 82 / Alcyonium pingue complanatum, exilius cano pullulans, 152 / Alcyonium forma Pyri Estne Pyrum marinum Aldrovandi, C. B. Pin. 127 /...
by wpengine | Dec 5, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Catherine Powell, University of Texas at Austin & Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society Figure 1. Alida Withoos, Plant Datura Fastuosa Lin., 1670–1715, brush, 33.2 × 22.5 cm. Rijksmuseum. Alida Withoos thrived as still life...
by wpengine | Aug 9, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Emma Steinkraus, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College Two of my favorite seventeenth-century women artists, Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian, were also excellent naturalists. As I combed through their paintings and prints...
