by wpengine | Sep 10, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nicole E. Cook, Project Coordinator for Academic Partnerships, Philadelphia Museum of Art Gesina ter Borch, Self-Portrait in a Cartouche Crowned with the arms of the Ter Borch family, 1659, with a poem by J.H. Roldanus. Source: Rijksmuseum Getting...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 28, 2019 | News/Blog
There also have been many experienced women in the field of painting who are still renowned in our time, and who could compete with men. Among them, one excels exceptionally, Judith Leyster, called “the true Leading star in art.” —Theodore...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog
As promised in a previous blog post (Michelangelo’s Sisters: (Re)Introducing Female Old Masters) here is a post that highlights the names and works of twelve female Old Masters. These dozen names represent only a small percentage of the women who were not only...
by Erika Gaffney | Apr 14, 2019 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Almost 100 years ago, Virginia Woolf famously speculated that if Shakespeare had had a sister of equal genius, she would have suffered in obscurity because of her gender—and the phrase “Shakespeare’s Sister” entered our cultural...
