Evelyn De Morgan: Painting Truth and Beauty

Guest post by Sarah Hardy, the De Morgan Foundation Mary Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, was born in London on 30 August 1855 to very well-to-do parents. Her mother, Anna, was the daughter of Walter Spencer-Stanhope of Cannon Hall in Yorkshire, and her father...

Recent Books for Young Readers About Women Artists

Here we list children’s books about women artists—from the distant past to the present—published from around the time of Art Herstory’s launch. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be...

Anna Ancher’s Vaccination and Scientific Motherhood

Guest post by Alice Price, Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture Figure 1: Anna Ancher, A Vaccination, 1899, oil on canvas, 73 cm x 90 cm, Skagens Museum, Denmark, SKM 1944. Danish audiences celebrate the Danish painter Anna Brøndum Ancher...

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...