Explore

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:55 PM

Self-Portrait, 1885, by #HelenAllingham (British, 1848-1926), who died 100 years ago #otd, Sept 28. Held by Burgh House; source, @Amy Lim’s #ArtHerstory guest post Helen Allingham’s Country Cottages: Subverting the Stereotype, artherstory.net/helen-alling... #womenartists

A bust-length, oval-shaped portrait within a paler rectangle of a white-skinned woman, brown hair pinned up, wearing a gold bead necklace and a dark dress with frilly white trim. Her body is turned slightly toward the left edge of the page, but her face turns toward her left shoulder to gaze directly at the viewer.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:23 PM

Portrait of an Unknown Girl with a Garland of Flowers, 1810–1815, by #MariaBarbaraKrafft (aka #BarbaraKrafft, née Steiner; Austrian, 1764–1825), who died #otd, Sept 28. Held by Salzburg Museum; source, archiv.salzburgmuseum.at/ausstellunge... #womenartists #artherstory

A half-length portrait against a mottled dark background of a white-skinned girl (maybe about 8 years old?) with dark eyes and brown hair put up in a braid around the back of her head. She wears a wide-necked pink dress with white trim, and holds up a garland of pink, red and white flowers.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 9:10 PM

Now on at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art -

Yoshida Fujio: Secret Gardens
www.ringling.org/event/yoshid...

This show runs through April 4, 2027

#womenartists #artherstory

Yoshida Fujio, Japanese, 1887–1987
Ladyslipper Orchids, 1954
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
15 13/16 × 10 11/16 in. (40.2 × 27.1 cm)
Museum purchase with funds from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Endowment, 2025

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 11:41 AM

The Woman Behind the Madonna
Working within her family’s workshop, #BarbaraLonghi developed a distinctive style of intimate devotional painting that brought the religious art of the Counter-Reformation into remarkably personal focus.
By Gurpreet Sihat
gksihat.com/blog/

#womenartists #artherstory

An image that superimposes a bust-length self-portrait of Barbara Long as St Catherine of Alexandria over a detail from one of her own paintings of the Holy Family.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:49 PM

Still Life: Lobsters, 1901, by #MargaretPreston (Australian, 1875–1963). Location unknown; source, www.ngv.vic.gov.au/media_releas...
The show “Margaret Preston” is on at the @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social thru Jan 31: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/m...
#NationalLobsterDay #womenartists #artherstory

A dark still life painting of foods and objects on a wooden table, including shells, red grapes, a cut and partially peeled lemon, a jug with an elaborate handle, a narrow glass vase with a stem of some leafy plant. Just off center to the right, on a raised platter atop a white cloth that drapes over the edge of the table, are three lobsters (one is bright red; the others are darker).

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 12:33 PM

Young woman with a fish on her plate and an intrusive older man / Unequal couple, 1785-1808, by #AnnaAlidadeFrey (or #AnnaAlidadeFreij, #AnnadeFrey; Dutch, 1768-1808), who was born #otd, Sept 24. Held by the Albertina Museum, sammlungenonline.albertina.at/objects/3168... #artherstory #womenartists

A watercolor painting depicting a woman in an interior, standing behind two wooden tables, wearing a broad brimmed hat. With her left hand and forearm she holds a pewter platter against her waist; with her right hand, she pushes away an older man who stands at her left, reaching behind her with his right arm to touch her right cheek. On the table at the left of the artwork is a lobster on a pewter platter, a bunched-up white cloth, a lemon, and a whole cauliflower. On the smaller, shorter table at right sits a large woven wicker basket with a handle.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 9:53 PM

Hawfinch with two cherries and a vase of carnations, C18th, by #TeresaBereniceVitelli (born #LuisaVitelli; Italian, active 1706–1729). Held by Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi Galleries; source, www.artres.com/asset-manage...

#artherstory #TeresaVitelli #womenartists

A watercolor drawing of a brown bird, standing sideways on bare ground, facing the left edge of the paper. In front of the bird, two cherries sit on the ground. Behind it is a blue and white vase containing three carnations - two white, one pink. There is a butterfly at the mouth of the vase, and above it, a winged insect (bee? fly?) looks about to alight on a flower stem.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 11:18 AM

Paula Modersohn-Becker at 150: The Painter Who Refused to Wait
by Erich Reich, Studierenden-Kunstmarkt, for the #ArtHerstory blog
artherstory.net/paula-moders...

#womenartists #historicwomenartists

Still Life with Goldfish Bowl, 1906, by Paula Modersohn-Becker; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 11:05 AM

Beyond Blood, Battle Scars and Beheading: How Artemisia Gentileschi Became Painting Itself
by CJ Denton
artherstory.net/beyond-blood...

In a guest post for the #ArtHerstory blog, Denton explores the story of C17th painter Artemisia Gentileschi thru the lens of her famous "La Pittura" self-portrait.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), c. 1638–39, oil on canvas, 98.6 × 75.2 cm, The Royal Collection.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 11:56 PM

Claudia del Bufalo Identified as Painter in Murder Trial, Not Noblewoman
by Sarah Mitchell for USA Art News
usaartnews.com/news/claudia...

#womenartists #artherstory

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:24 PM

#Spring, by #AgnesMillerParker (British, 1895–1980). Published in Eiluned Lewis’ Honey Pots and Brandy Bottles, 1954; source, nelabligh.com/2013/11/06/w... #FirstDayofSpring (S. Hemisphere) #SpringEquinox #vernalequinox #womenartists #artherstory

A black-and-white woodcut engraving of a landscape; up close, on the ground, are a bowl and an oil lamp. A plant at the right extends its leafy branches in an arch at the top of the artwork. There are fruits on the plant, and on the ground.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

#Autumn, published 1954, by #AgnesMillerParker (British, 1895–1980). Source, “Agnes Miller Parker: Engraving Green Worlds in Black and White,” by Kristen Bluemel, artherstory.net/agnes-miller... #AutumnEquinox #FallEquinox #FirstDayofFall (N. Hemisphere) #womenartists #artherstory

A rectangular, portrait mode woodcut engraving of a landscape, framed at the bottom with berries, leaves, flowers and a bird at the bottom. The top and upper sides are framed with the canopy of a tree whose trunk is portrayed at middle right.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

A #Rhinoceros, 1740-49, by #JohannaFosie (Danish, 1726-1764). Held by Statens Museum for Kunst, open.smk.dk/artwork/imag... #WorldRhinoDay #womenartists #artherstory

An etching on foxed paper of a rhinoceros standing on grass, depicted sideways and facing the left edge of the paper, with a rectangular frame drawn around the picture. Under the bottom rule of the frame, at left, are the handwritten words "Johanna Fosie ad vivum delin. et fec." Just within the top right corner of the drawn frame are the characters "Tab. 6."

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

Andaleeb Banta's #ArtHerstory guest post "Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Enlightened Flower Painter" offers insights into Dietzsch's works & also her working methods -
artherstory.net/barbara-regi...