by wpengine | Mar 17, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, CUNY Fig. 1, Eliza Pratt Greatorex, drawn from a photograph for The Illustrated Weekly. St. Patrick’s Day offers the opportunity to pause and ponder its origins and relations to Irish American art and...
by Erika Gaffney | Feb 26, 2022 | News/Blog
As we all know, March is Women’s History Month! Here we present, in chronological order, an illustrated list of events in honor of women’s contributions to the history of art. Some of the events are free to attend; others are fee-based. If you are aware of...
by Erika Gaffney | Feb 11, 2022 | News/Blog
Big news, the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Shop now carries Art Herstory note cards! These sets, custom designed by the DIA, showcase the names and artworks of three Italian women artists who were famous in their time, but who have been overlooked in the centuries...
by wpengine | Jan 18, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed Fig. 1. Marie Laurencin, Self-Portrait, 1906. Colored pencil and pencil on notebook paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In an attempt to tell a more inclusive story of modern art,...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2021 | News/Blog
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 final quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
