by wpengine | Dec 12, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Carol M. Cram, Founder, Art in Fiction The Sisters, 1869, by Berthe Morisot. Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Women have painted for centuries, so why don’t we know more about history’s female artists? Fortunately, several major...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Judith Leyster (1609–1660), the protagonist of Callaghan’s 2018 novel We notice an exciting new trend in publishing: real women artists from the distant past feature as protagonists in new works of historical fiction, and as subjects of scholarly...
by Erika Gaffney | May 22, 2019 | News/Blog
Q&A about Gentileschi (1593–c.1653), the protagonist of McCullough’s novel-in-verse We notice an exciting trend in fiction publishing over the course of the past year: women artists, whose paintings still exist today, are protagonists in several works...