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Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
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In a new MAC exhibition, Andrea Joyce Heimer's cathartic paintings explore her personal process of tethering By E.J. Iannelli for The Inlander www.inlander.com/culture/in-a...

Op 22 februari 1926 overlijdt de Deense schilderes Bertha Wegmann. Een portret van haar zuster wordt in 1882 op de Salon in Parijs met een medaille bekroond. Dat levert haar in Denemarken veel erkenning op. Als eerste vrouw ooit wordt ze voorzitter van de Koninklijke Deense Kunstacademie. #otd

Interior with a bunch of wild flowers, the artist’s paint box, a palette & a half-smoked cheroot), ca. 1882, by #BerthaWegmann (Danish, 1847-1926), who died #otd, Feb 22. Held by The Hirschsprung Collection; source, www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... #womenartists #artherstory

A TEFAF Focus on Artists Overlooked for their Gender antiquesandartireland.com "... The European Fine Art Fair will highlight the work of women artists. This trend is firmly established and unstoppable." antiquesandartireland.com/2025/02/a-te... Pictured: The Two Inseparables, by Emma Soyer

More Space, More Art: The Muskegon Museum of Art’s Expansion is Open! The Bennett-Schmidt Pavilion has opened doubling the size of the museum. This expansion features 5 new galleries & brings more artwork out of storage and onto the walls. The historic wing now showcases the permanent collection.

Julie Bell! During my visit to the new expansion of the Muskegon Museum of Art I spotted this beautiful painting by Marvel, DC and Image illustrator Julie Bell. Hurray, comic illustrator snubbing seems to have disappeared, at least from my local art museum. #juliebell #Marvel #DC #Image

"Over the past decade, only 11% of art acquired by the top museums in the United States for their permanent collections was by women, according to the Burns Halperin Report published in 2022." Muskegon Museum of Art Doubles in Size, Opens Exhibition of Women Artists hyperallergic.com/987327/muske...

Learning from the Masters: Helen McNicoll and Impressionism www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/program/lear...

Modern Women Artists in Copenhagen 2024–2025: Three Exhibitions by Alice M. Rudy Price for the #ArtHerstory blog artherstory.net/modern-women...

Thurs 27 Feb at 2pm City Art Centre in Edinburgh A Lecture to accompany the excellent current exhibition ‘Inked Up: Printmaking in Scotland’ - presented by Ann Gunn - 'A different way of working: The prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham' Booking is free, but essential - buff.ly/3EMmaDb

From Sat 22 Feb thru Mon 24 Feb, customers can receive 25% off their pre-order of the @lhartbooks.bsky.social book *CLARA PEETERS* by Alejandro Vergara-Sharp! Enter code “PREORDER25” at the checkout, exclusively via the Waterstones website, www.waterstones.com, and the Waterstones app.

‘This comprehensive show includes preparatory sketches and her tarot deck, reflecting her spiritual beliefs and radical, occult-influenced art.’ Review by Rochelle Roberts for Studio International of #IthellColquhoun: Between Worlds at Tate St Ives studiointernational.com/index.php/it...

You can also read more about Gentileschi here: www.infinite-women.com/women/artemi... and in my upcoming book, Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work: www.infinite-women.com/books/

You can also read about Thomas here: www.infinite-women.com/women/alma-w...

Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting goes on display in Scotland for the first time artdaily.com/news/178294/...

Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY celebrating Alma Thomas by Chadd Scott www.seegreatart.art/memorial-art...

Coming up Sat, March 29 - Cathy Hall-van den Elsen delivers the @philamuseum.bsky.social's Eda G. Diskant Lecture: The Extraordinary Life of Luisa Roldán philamuseum.org/calendar/eve...

OPEN NOW at Vancouver Art Gallery: Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/... Emily Carr is one of the artists highlighted in the recent LH book, 'A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930' by Isabelle Gapp!

Anne Vallayer-Coster Basket of Plums Note Card | Art from Cleveland Museum of Art etsy.me/3XbnIwS via @Etsy

A new episode of The Northern Art Podcast focuses on landscape painter Sheila Fell. This episode coincides with the largest ever Sheila Fell exhibition currently on until 16th March at Tullie in Carlisle, which then travels to Sunderland Museum until June 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTOR...

It's a She Thing: European Women Artists at the Toledo Museum of Art (1600-1900) Fri, March 7 On this tour, visitors will learn about influential artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, whose groundbreaking work continues to inspire today. tma.ticketapp.org/portal/produ...

Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Zaga Christ by Giovanna Garzoni by Carol Damioli for Daily Art www.dailyartmagazine.com/portrait-of-...

Amy Sherald’s Sublime Portraits of Black Americans Head to NYC Nearly 50 paintings by the artist will go on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art starting April 9. by Maya Pontone for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/990613/amy-s...

Carved Cherry Stone Pendant, 1510-30, by #ProperziaDeRossi (Italian, c. 1490–1530), who died around this day, Feb 20. Held at Museo degli Argenti, Uffizi Galleries; source, www.facebook.com/female.artis... #womensculptors #womenartists #artherstory #renaissancewomenartists #italianwomenartists

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Female Solidarity in Paintings of Judith and her Maidservant by Italian Women Artists, by Sivan Maoz artherstory.net/female-solid... Pictured: #ArtemisiaGentileschi, Judith and her Maidservant, c.1618–19, oil on canvas, 114 x 93.5 cm; Pitti Palace, Florence.

Coming up March 13 - "The Spirit of a Particular Age": Women Artists and the Challenges of an Integrated Art History by @pspiesgans.bsky.social National Gallery, London (& online) This event is part of the annual Anna Jameson Lecture series. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/talks...

Great to see some #womenartists represented in "Icons, Innovators and Legacies: The Art Books Defining 2025" - Ruth Asawa, Georgia O'Keeffe & Shahzia Sikander! observer.com/2025/01/must...

Tori Champion's rvw of 'Louise Moillon' appears in The Burlington's Jan issue- '... a welcome addition to scholarship on C17th French art production and the women whose careers must be included in this story.' Read more at the @lhartbooks.bsky.social website, www.lundhumphries.com/products/lou...

A Musical Company, 1650s, by #MargarethaWulfraet (Dutch, 1678–1760), who was born #otd, Feb 19. Held at the Staatliches Museum Schwerin; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory

Published tomorrow (though snuck its way into some @nationaltrust.bsky.social shops already)! #womenartists #nationaltrust

Lilly Martin Spencer: Hearth, Home, and National Fame by Annelise K. Madsen The Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu/articles/117...

A Camille Claudel Sculpture, Lost for a Century, Sells in Paris for $3.8 M by Tessa Solomon for ARTnews www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

New book announcement! Women Artists & Designers at the National Trust by Rachel Conroy with an introduction by Sandi Toksvig shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/women-artist... Spanning six centuries, this book looks at some of the many women artists and designers represented in its vast collections.

More than a century after her last painting, Africville artist gets first solo exhibition From Africville: The Paintings of Edith MacDonald-Brown opens Saturday at Mount Saint Vincent's art gallery by Richard Woodbury for CBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Alice M. Rudy Price describes and analyzes no fewer than three recent art shows in Copenhagen - Modern Women Artists in Copenhagen 2024–2025: Three Exhibitions artherstory.net/modern-women...

LIVE TONIGHT at 19:15 Co-author of the forthcoming book on #SheilaFell, Eleanor Bradley, will be speaking alongside art historian and writer Frances Spalding about the artist Sheila Fell and the exhibition of her work at Tullie House (until 16 March). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

“The Whole World Is a Mystery" showcases Gertrude Abercrombie's surrealist work youtu.be/7_z0XKUrOYA?... CBS Pittsburgh via @YouTube The exhibition is on at the Carnegie Museum of Art thru June 1 - carnegieart.org/exhibition/g...

Double the Power of the Home - Two Good Votes are Better Than One, 1915, by #BlancheAmesAmes (1878–1969), who was born #otd, Feb 18. Source, @VCULibraries, images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/128 #womenartists #artherstory

Portrait of an Unknown Lady, 1650-5, by #JoanCarlile (née Palmer, English, c. 1606-79). Held by Tate, www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks... #womenartists #artherstory

Thrilled to have seen 'The Botanical World of Mary Delany' at Beningbrough Hall at last, showcasing many of her beautifully detailed collages. It was also a treat to see 'Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust', including Sabine Winn's collages. Perfect way to start 2025!

Still life with fruit in two dishes and flowers, n.d., by #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia (#TheodoraCaccia; Italian, c. 1596-c. 1676). Source, soloarte.atelierdesarts.com/artisti/old/... #artherstory #womenartists #nuntastic