The Day Before Christmas Eve, n.d., by #MarionGrayTraver (American, 1892-1964). Private collection; source, Female Artists in History, www.facebook.com/female.artis... #artherstory #womenartists

Madonna Adoring the Child, c. 1585-1605, by #BarbaraLonghi (Italian, 1552-c. 1638), who died #otd, Dec 23. Held by The Walters Art Museum, art.thewalters.org/detail/11457... #artherstory #womenartists

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, n.d., by #BarbaraLonghi (Italian, 1552-c. 1638), who died #otd, Dec 23. Private collection? Sold by Dorotheum in May 2023 for €39K, www.dorotheum.com/en/l/8507560/ #artherstory #womenartists

Gertrude Stein Was Her Champion. How History Forgot Self-Taught Artist Hazel Knapp In the 1930s and ‘40s, the self-taught Vermont artist painted from a wheelchair with the assistance of her mother, earning success. news.artnet.com/art-world/ha...

Madonna & Child, c. 1580-85, by #BarbaraLonghi (Italian, 1552-c. 1638), who died #otd, Dec 23. On view in C205 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/42043/ #artherstory #womenartists

New guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Finding Catherine Read by Adam Busiakiewicz artherstory.net/finding-cath... Here Adam presents information about the life and work of C18th British portrait painter Catherine Read, and also gives insight into the nature of art historical research!

Vallayer-Coster is the subject of an #IlluminatingWomenArtists, forthcoming in March 2026! The bk will be co-published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Publications – Anne Vallayer-Coster by Kelsey Brosnan www.lundhumphries.com/products/ann... #womenartists #artherstory

Winter, by Wendy Red Star. #WinterSolstice

Purple-rumped sunbirds / Leptocoma zeylonica, 1801-7?, by Lady #ElizabethSymondsGwillim (British, 1763-1807), who died #otd, Dec 21. Held by Blacker Wood Library at McGill University, archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/su... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

Basket of Peaches, with Quinces, and Plums, after 1641, by #LouiseMoillon (French, 1610–1696), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Held at LACMA, collections.lacma.org/node/221448 #womenartists #artherstory

Still life with a bowl of apricots, peaches and plums, all on a ledge, c. 1634, by #LouiseMoillon (French, 1610-1696), who died #otd, Dec 21. Private collection? This painting was sold by Sotheby’s on 6 Dec 2023 for £558,800, www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti... #artherstory #womenartists

Peaches and basket of grapes, birds and a cup and saucer, 1781, by #CharlotteEustacheSophiedeFulignyDamas, #MarquisedeGrollier (French, 1741–1828), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Private collection; source, artherstory.net/charlotte-eu... #womenartists #artherstory

Winter, C18th, attr. #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744–1818), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Held at @metmuseum.org, www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #artherstory #womenartists #FirstDayofWinter #WinterSolstice

Winter, n.d., attr to #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744–1818), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Held by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1817... #FirstDayofWinter #womenartists #artherstory #WinterSolstice

Tal día como hoy 21 de diciembre👇 @francescmrotger.bsky.social @maneltrenchs.bsky.social @lserrat77.bsky.social @artherstory.bsky.social @cactusian.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social @humanitelles.bsky.social @arteyalgomas.bsky.social

For people in Melbourne, Christopher Marshall will be lecturing on Artemisia Gentileschi in March

This Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Is Unlike Any of Her Others. Here’s Why This recently reattributed painting is more than what it seems. by Karen Chernick for @artnet.bsky.social news.artnet.com/art-world/th...

Look at the shadows on those daisy petals 😍😍😍

Butterflies, c. 1700, by #CorneliaDeRijk ( #CorneliaDeRijck; Dutch, 1653-1726), who married her 1st husband #otd, Dec 19. Held by the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social, id.rijksmuseum.nl/200801435 #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

Forest still life with squirrel, c. 1683-7, by #AnnaRuysch (Dutch, 1666-1741), baptized #otd, Dec 19. Held by Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/A... #artherstory #womenartists Visit #ArtHerstory’s resource page for the artist at artherstory.net/anna-ruysch/

A Still Life of Flowers on a Marble Table Ledge, 1685, by #AnnaRuysch (Dutch, 1666-1741), who was baptized #otd, Dec 19. Private collection; now on view in “Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art” at Munich’s Alte Pinakothek, www.pinakothek.de/en/exhibitio... #artherstory #womenartists

Flowers in a glass vase on a marble table, n.d., by #AnnaRuysch (Dutch, 1666-1741), baptized #otd, Dec 19. Private collection via The Hoogsteder Museum Fdn. Now on view in “Maestras” at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemizsa, thru 4 Feb, www.museothyssen.org/en/exhibitio... #artherstory #womenartists

Tal día como hoy 19 de diciembre 👇 @francescmrotger.bsky.social @maneltrenchs.bsky.social @lserrat77.bsky.social @artherstory.bsky.social @cactusian.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social @humanitelles.bsky.social @arteyalgomas.bsky.social

If you've seen the current Manet & Morisot show in S. F. and you'd like to know more about Berthe Morisot's light-filled art-- as well as how she survived the Siege of Paris...and the love of Edouard Manet--La Luministe is available at Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, !ndigo, or Regal House Pub.

See this great exhibit in Philly! I got to speak with the curator and the family of one of the featured artists, Miné Okubo, for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Portrait of Elisa Napoleon Baciocchi, 1810, by #MarieGuillemineBenoist (French, 1768-1826), who was born #otd, Dec 18. Held by Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau‎; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Na... #artherstory #womenartists

Catherine Telford Keogh has won the Guggenheim Museum’s first Jack Galef Visual Arts Award, a new $50,000 prize honoring “artists of exceptional talent whose work demonstrates innovation, depth, and vision.”

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1799, by #MarieGuillemineBenoist (French, 1768-1826), born #otd, Dec 18. Held by the San Diego Museum of Art, collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/in.... Now on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Making Her Mark show, artbma.org/exhibition/m... #artherstory #womenartists

Innocence between Vice and Virtue, c. 1790-91, by #MarieGuillemineBenoist (French, 1768-1826), who was born #otd, Dec 18. Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In... #artherstory #womenartists

Farmer's family feeding the pigs, 1758-1801, by #ChristinaChalon (Dutch, 1748-1808), who died #otd, Dec 18. Held by the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social, id.rijksmuseum.nl/200253451 #artherstory #womenartists

Two sketches of a violin player, 1765-99, by #ChristinaChalon (Dutch, 1748-1808), who died #otd, Dec 18. Held by Kröller-Müller Museum, krollermuller.nl/en/christina... #artherstory #womenartists #Dutchwomenartists

A Tobacco Farmer and His Three Sons, North Carolina, 1930s, by Bayard Wootten (American, 1875–1959), who was born #otd, Dec 17. Held in the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill; source, artherstory.net/anne-brigman... #womenartists #artherstory

Ice Plant / Mesembryanthemum Crassifolium, c.1710, by #MariaMoninckx (Dutch, 1673/76–1757). Moninckx Atlas of the Hortus Botanicus, University of Amsterdam, @allardpierson.bsky.social; source, artherstory.net/women-and-th... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659) Text by Hugh Aldersey-Williams for The @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Review publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Is it just me, or is this video about the wonderful artist Julie Hart Beers incredibly skillful - tender and intimate like the artist herself. youtube.com/shorts/66hsv... @metmuseum.org @merryrobin.bsky.social @artherstory.bsky.social @womensart.bsky.social @annaplesset.bsky.social

New book announcement! Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 By Virginia Treanor, Frederica Dam, Manfred Sellink & Susan Fisher shop.nmwa.org/products/unf... #newbooksaboutwomenartists

Happy birthday Remedios Varo. The prolific Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter, fond of lone figures & fantastic machines, was born today in 1908. #surrealism

Rewriting Art History. In Conversation with Alison Gingeras, Curator of “The Women Question 1550-2025” by Julia Gorlewska for Contemporary Lynx contemporarylynx.co.uk/rewriting-ar...

The Lost Works of Susanna Horenbout, Female Artist at the Tudor Court artherstory.net/the-lost-wor...

Dutch and Flemish Women Artists—A Major Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts artherstory.net/dutch-and-fl...

Rachel Ruysch Note Card Wallet | 8 cards and envelopes etsy.me/3MDAr90 via Etsy These two cards - 4 of each design included - reproduce paintings held at the Detroit Institute of Arts & Kunstmuseum Basel. #RachelRuysch #artherstory #womenartists

Now on at the Plains Art Museum - Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity plainsart.org/exhibitions/... The show includes 37 etchings, engravings, lithographs, drawings, watercolors, woodblock prints & photos from the Reading Public Museum & 40 artworks from Plains Art Museum’s collection.

Now on at Llantarnam Grange Truth, Lies & Alibis Christine Kinsey 6 December–28 February llantarnamgrange.com/truth-lies-a...

I Lit All My Candles, by Hildegard Rath (1952) #Hanukkah #Expressionism

Last minute shopping or building a collection, here are some great books about #womenartists by #womenwriters I was delighted to be able to highlight in WomanAroundTown @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @artherstory.bsky.social Victoria_redel StacyInnerst & others womanaroundtown.com/sections/rea...

His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, & Prince Frederick, 1775, mezzotint by #CatherineRead (#KatherineRead; Scottish, 1723-78), who died #otd, Dec 15. Held by The Fleming Art Collection, flemingcollection.com/scottish_art... #artherstory #womenartists

Portrait of Polly Jones, n.d,, by #CatherineRead (#KatherineRead; Scottish, 1723-78), who died #otd, Dec 15. Held by The Fargindon Collection; source, A Space of Their Own, artmusem.sitehost.iu.edu/space-of-the... #artherstory #womenartists

And there is some stock of Art Herstory's holiday cards from previous years, available from our online or Etsy store - artherstory.net/shop/ www.etsy.com/shop/ArtHers... Pls note: stock of the Marianne Stokes Madonna & Child card is extremely limited, but a few individual cards are available.

Menorah, original art (wallhanging) for USPS 2022 Hanukkah stamp, c.2022, by #JeanetteKuvinOren (American, b. 1961). Source, forward.com/culture/5205... #artherstory #womenartists #HappyHanukkah

Books For the Art Lover on Your List by @mgregorywriter.bsky.social for Woman Around Town womanaroundtown.com/sections/rea... A wonderful list of reading recommendations - and we are so grateful for the shout-out to Art Herstory!