by Erika Gaffney | Dec 27, 2023 | News/Blog
Great news: in terms of museum exhibitions, 2024 is shaping up to be exciting for women artists from early modernity through the present. Here, though, we focus (almost) exclusively on women artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Keep checking back;...
by artherstory | Nov 8, 2023 | News/Blog
A New Acquisition for the National Gallery of Ireland Guest post by Lizzie Marx, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland An Animate Still Life In 1742, when Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch was 78 or 79, she painted the delightful...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 28, 2022 | News/Blog
Maria Hadfield Cosway has recently closed at the Fondazione Maria Cosway. On January 15, Sofonisba—History’s Forgotten Miracle closes at Nivaagaards Malerisamling and Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature closes at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. What do fans of...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2021 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the final quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by wpengine | Oct 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Aoife Brady, National Gallery of Ireland In 1872, just eight years after first opening its doors, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) purchased The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by...
