by Erika Gaffney | Feb 17, 2026 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Early this month, the National Gallery of Art disclosed its purchase of Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a painting by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The announcement has resonated throughout the art world. According to the...
by Erika Gaffney | Feb 27, 2025 | News/Blog
As we all know, March is Women’s History Month! Here we present, in chronological order, a list of events having to do with women in art. We include all March (and slightly beyond) events we have heard about that focus on women artists, though not all are necessarily...
by artherstory | Feb 25, 2025 | News/Blog
Meeting Spain’s First Professional Female Sculptor Guest post by Olivia Turner, Curatorial Assistant, Meadows Museum, Dallas Title treatment for Luisa Roldán: Escultora Real. Author photo. Luisa Roldán in the Seventeenth Century Luisa Roldán, commonly...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2024 | News/Blog
Already 2025 has much to offer in terms of art museum shows about women artists from the distant past through the present. Here, though, we focus (almost) exclusively on art exhibitions about women artists from the Renaissance to about the mid-20th century. Some are...
by artherstory | Nov 14, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, Independent scholar Researching the life and work of the Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán has been a lifelong endeavor. In 2020, as Covid set in and I waited for the publication of my book Luisa Roldán, I wondered about other...
