by artherstory | Nov 8, 2023 | News/Blog
A New Acquisition for the National Gallery of Ireland Guest post by Lizzie Marx, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland An Animate Still Life In 1742, when Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch was 78 or 79, she painted the delightful...
by artherstory | Oct 19, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Victor Sande-Aneiros, art historian and graduate of The Warburg Institute Last month, seventeenth-century Bolognese painter Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665) received her first solo exhibition outside Italy in New York’s Robert...
by artherstory | Oct 7, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Newberry Library Rarely does a major cultural institution host an exhibition for an artist who is not already represented in its collections. Even more rarely does such an exhibition feature a female artist. When I walked into the...
by Erika Gaffney | Sep 25, 2023 | News/Blog
A modern woman artist returns to Providence, 100 years on Installation view of the Esther Pressoir “pod” now on view at RISD Museum, Providence, RI One century after attaining her art degree, Esther Estelle Pressoir (1902–1986) returns to the Rhode Island...
by artherstory | Aug 12, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kristen Marchetti, Cole Fellow 2022–2023 Sarah Cole (1805–1857) was an accomplished American artist known for her paintings, etchings, and drawings. Like her brother Thomas Cole, an influential figure in the Hudson River School, she worked in...
