by Erika Gaffney | Jun 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the second quarter of this calendar year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be on this list, please...
by wpengine | Apr 20, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary D. Garrard, American University (Emerita) In spring 2020, two female Old Master solo exhibitions would have occurred simultaneously: Artemisia Gentileschi, at the National Gallery, London, and Giovanna Garzoni, at Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The...
by wpengine | Apr 14, 2020 | News/Blog
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’...
by Erika Gaffney | Jan 16, 2020 | News/Blog
“Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age” has recently closed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. On February 2, “A Tale of Two Women Painters” closes at the Prado. So, what do fans of female Old Masters have to look forward to? In a...
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...
