by artherstory | Mar 29, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sandy Rattley, Audacious Women Productions Augusta Savage working on an animal sculpture. Courtesy of the National Archives_1935–1947. Augusta Savage is an amazing woman who undoubtedly fits the description of “audacious,” as she overcame countless odds...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 30, 2023 | News/Blog
Outdoor and indoor signage for the Making Her Mark exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Author photos. How to characterize an art exhibition as sweeping and ambitious as Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400–1800? The first term that...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 20, 2022 | News/Blog
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...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 16, 2022 | 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 third quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by wpengine | Sep 8, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen The Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) was recognised in her lifetime as an artist of considerable talent. Luisa was born in Seville, the daughter of Pedro Roldán, a prominent sculptor. Early in her career she carved...
