by wpengine | Jan 7, 2020 | News/Blog
CODART votes the Toledo Museum of Art’s painting into its new Canon Guest post by Lawrence W. Nichols, Senior Curator, the Toledo Museum of Art Lawrence W. Nichols with Floral Still Life, 1726, by Rachel Ruysch. Toledo Museum of Art. Against a dark background,...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 22, 2019 | Exhibits, News/Blog
Thoughts on an important focus exhibition There are still a couple of weeks in which to see “Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). If you live in the DC area, or if you visit the area over the holidays, make a point...
by artherstory | Nov 10, 2019 | News/Blog
Thoughts on the marquee event of the Museo del Prado’s 200th-anniversary celebration Guest post by Natasha Moura, Madrid-based art blogger, educator, writer and cultural manager The exhibition A Tale of Two Women Painters just opened at the Museo del Prado in...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 30, 2019 | News/Blog
Vase of Flowers, n.d., by Mary Moser. Source, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. When Britain’s Royal Academy was founded in 1769, there were two women among the thirty-six founding members—Angelica Kauffman (also known as Maria Anna Angelika...
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,...