New Art Herstory Note Card Designs for 2022

This Spring, Art Herstory is excited to announce eight new note card designs! Two artists—Clara Peeters and Rachel Ruysch—make a repeat appearance. But with this year’s card additions we introduce six “new” female Old Masters: Rosalba Carriera,...

Women and the Art of Flower Painting

Guest post by Ariane van Suchtelen, Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands In 2022 the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague celebrates its 200th anniversary with In Full Bloom, a festive exhibition about Dutch and Flemish flower still lifes of the seventeenth...

Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago

In a previous Art Herstory post, we highlighted one dozen women artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, we noted that the twelve painters and sculptors in that list represented only a small percentage of female makers of centuries...

Announcing Six New Art Herstory Note Cards

Additions in November 2020 to Art Herstory’s Note Card Line This month, Art Herstory is excited to launch six new note card designs! Some of these cards present new works by early modern women artists who are already represented in the collection. And others...

The Politics of Exhibiting Female Old Masters

Women Artists and Their Contended Place in Public History Guest post by Sheila Barker, The Medici Archive Project This essay is a pendant post of Do We Have Any Great Women Artists Yet?, by Sheila ffolliott. Women Now, Whitney Annual protest by Ad Hoc Women Artists’...