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 artherstory | Aug 19, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Stephanie Dickey, art historian Feature image: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Promised Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art Picture this. The year is...
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 | Jan 14, 2025 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Outdoor signage at Alte Pinakothek, Munich, for Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art. Author photo. The world has waited a very long time—300 years, give or take—for the first monographic exhibition of the Amsterdam-based flower...
by wpengine | Jan 7, 2020 | News/Blog
CODART votes the Toledo Museum of Art’s painting into its new Canon Guest post by Lawrence W. Nichols, Senior Curator, the Toledo Museum of Art Lawrence W. Nichols with Floral Still Life, 1726, by Rachel Ruysch. Toledo Museum of Art. Against a dark background,...
