New Books about Women Artists | Apr–Jun 2022

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 second quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of...

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Revolutionary Painter

Guest post by Paris A. Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows  In July 2020, an oil painting appeared on the art market that had long been thought lost (fig. 1). A medium-sized canvas, 111 x 145 centimeters (3.6 x 4.7 feet), it depicted a sinuous woman in white,...