by artherstory | Jan 14, 2025 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Outdoor signage at Alte Pinakothek, Munich, for Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art. Author photo. The world has waited a very long time—300 years, give or take—for the first monographic exhibition of the Amsterdam-based flower...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 8, 2019 | News/Blog
A new show opens this week, featuring works by highly successful female artists in the 17th- and early 18th-century Netherlands A Still Life of Lilies, Roses, Iris, Pansies, Columbine, Love-in-a-Mist, Larkspur & other Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Table Top,...
by Erika Gaffney | Aug 7, 2019 | News/Blog
A New Book Announcement Published by Amsterdam University Press, this essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500–1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 28, 2019 | News/Blog
There also have been many experienced women in the field of painting who are still renowned in our time, and who could compete with men. Among them, one excels exceptionally, Judith Leyster, called “the true Leading star in art.” —Theodore...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Judith Leyster (1609–1660), the protagonist of Callaghan’s 2018 novel We notice an exciting new trend in publishing: real women artists from the distant past feature as protagonists in new works of historical fiction, and as subjects of scholarly...
