by Erika Gaffney | Dec 16, 2020 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new publications—including games as well as books!—about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the fourth quarter of this calendar year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by wpengine | Dec 5, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Catherine Powell, University of Texas at Austin & Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society Figure 1. Alida Withoos, Plant Datura Fastuosa Lin., 1670–1715, brush, 33.2 × 22.5 cm. Rijksmuseum. Alida Withoos thrived as still life...
by wpengine | Mar 25, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ann Sylph, Librarian at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Both art and science help people to reconnect with nature and to take action to protect it. The value of art in communicating...
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 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,...
