Erika Gaffney

@erikagaffney.bsky.social

Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com

@erikagaffney.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 5:46 PM

Coming up October 20 -

The Portrait Miniature: A New History
Fondazione Maddalena Di Giacomo, Palazzo Valier
www.fondazionemaddalenadigiacomo.org/exhibitions/...

Book Presentation & Conversation with Damiët Schneeweisz and Rosalind McKever: Curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A book cover, mostly vibrant sky blue with text but also featuring an oval-shaped miniature painting of a human eye; the painting is framed in gold set with pearls.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 2:12 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

New guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

Angèlica Justiniano: A Painter in Baroque Catalonia
by Mercè Valderrey
artherstory.net/angelica-jus...

Mercè's introduces readers to Angèlica Justiniano, a woman painter of C17th Catalonia (documented 1614–1650) and presents the artist's 4 known works.

Two paintings, each originally on an organ door, which together depict the Annunciation. At left is the Archangel Gabriel, standing with his right arm raised and pointing heavenward, while he holds a stalk of lilies in his left hand. At right is the Virgin Mary kneeling by a balcony, with a book open on a stand in front of her and a covered basket on the ground by her left knee. Cherubim float in the air above her head. A landscape is visible beyond the balcony's stone balustrade.

@erikagaffney.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:53 PM

It seems the link I posted is for last year’s competition - my apologies. But a call went out by email for this year’s iteration, so hopefully the site will update soon. If you DM me an email address, I can forward you the info I have.

@erikagaffney.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 5:45 PM

Women Writing Women’s Lives Kathy Chamberlain Research Awards (2026-2027)

womenwritingwomenslives.org/kathy-chambe...

Each recipient receives $1,000 to help defray expenses incurred while working on a memoir or biography of a woman, in print or other media, such as film, podcast, website, etc.

womenwritingwomenslives.orgCall for Applications 2026-2027 | WOMEN WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:43 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

A girl selling oranges, n.d., by #JeannePhiliberteLedoux (French, 1767-1840), who died #otd, Oct 12. Private collection? source, www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-1...

Read about the artist on Pastellists.com by @neiljeffares.bsky.social -
www.pastellists.com/Articles/Led...

#womenartists #artherstory

A roughly bust-length painting of a little girl, close up, with white skin, blue eyes, and light brown hair. She wears a blue cloth head covering and is wrapped in a rough brown blanket. With her right arm she cradles an empty brown handled basket, on the top edge of which rests her left hand. Her head is tipped so that her right cheek rests against the basket handle as she gazes at the viewer. On a little table at the lower left a small pile of oranges (4 are visible) sits on a white cloth. The top of one of the fruits is lopped off to expose a cross-section of the interior.

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Two butterflies, n.d., by #CorneliaDeRijck (Dutch, 1653-1726), who was born #otd, Oct 11. Held by the Royal Swedish Academy; source, @rkdnl.bsky.social / the Netherlands Institute for Art History, rkd.nl/en/explore/i... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

A framed drawing of 2 butterflies in black ink. The one at top left looks greyish, with more visible veins. The one toward the bottom right is much darker, with four white spots at the bottom of each lower wing. The artist's signature is in cursive in the bottom right corner.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:34 AMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Christmas Roses Holiday Cards, Art Herstory Boxed Set of 10 etsy.me/4yfL2sW via Etsy

- Art by Florence Westwood Whitfield
- Original painting held at Birmingham Museums Trust / Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
- The interior greeting is "Season's Greetings"

Holiday cards in a clear plastic box, decorated with a red metallic stretch band. The card front clearly visible within the box reproduces a painting of white Christmas roses in a vase, accented with holly leaves and berries, by British painter Florence Westwood Whitfield.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:16 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Portrait of a Lady, n.d., by #MarieGenevièveBouliar (or #MarieGenevièveBouliard; French, 1762-1825), who died #otd, Oct 9. Held by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory

A bust-length painting of a white-skinned woman with long blond hair, wearing a gauzy black scarf over a simple white dress or blouse, and a long black head covering. Her sorrowful-looking face, in three-quarter view, turns toward the left edge of the painting. Her hands are crossed, right over left, at her breast.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 5:08 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Opened today at Nasjonalmuseet -

W̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ Painter
www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitio...

The show presents some 50 paintings by artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Clara Peeters, Michaelina Wautier and Lavinia Fontana alongside works by their teachers.

#womenartists #artherstory

An installation photo of the exhibition W̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ Painter, in which the viewer sees paintings partially obscured by people standing in front of them. At the center is Lavinia Fontana's painting of Minerva dressing, flanked by a Michaelina Wautier's "Education of the Virgin" on the left and "Pieta" by Mechtelt toe Boecop (or van Lichtenberg) on the right. At the far left and right, a painting is partially visible.

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Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689), n.d., by #MaryBeale (English, 1633-1699), who died #otd, Oct 8. Held by the Royal College of Physicians; source, @artukdotorg.bsky.social, artuk.org/discover/art... #artherstory #womenartists

A bust-length, oval-shaped portrait of a jowly, solemn-looking white man with long gray hair, wearing a black robe or jacket and a white cravat. His body faces the right edge of the artwork at a slant; he turns his head toward his right shoulder so that the viewer can see his face in full.

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Self-portrait, 1786, by #MarieGuillemineBenoist (French, 1768-1826), who died #otd, Oct 8. Held by Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/M... #artherstory #womenartists

A portrait-mode rectangular painting of a white woman with long curly dark-blond hair, seated at an easel. She holds a paintbrush in her uplifted right hand, and clutches a handful of paintbrushes with her left hand, with which she also supports a palette. She wears a white or light blue gown that falls so far off her right shoulder that it nearly exposes her right breast. She also wears a pink sash, and is sitting on a gold cloak with a decorated border. At the right of the artwork is a portion of the painting she is working on, a copy of Jacques-Louis David's "Bélisaire et l'enfant à mi-corps."

@ceu-press.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:20 AMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Day 2 at the Frankfurt Book Fair! 📖✍️

A full schedule of meetings, discussions, and new connections. Our team is busy meeting authors, editors, librarians, and fellow publishers.

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by to say hello!

#FrankfurtBookFair #FrankfurtBookFair2026

@16csociety.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 5:01 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Another session to consider at #SCSC2026 is Space and Society in Early Modern Italy: From Mapping to Machine Learning, organized by Jennifer Mara DeSilva and chaired by Catherine Kerton-Johnson. Papers will include:

@16csociety.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 12:02 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Check out the new Lightning Round sessions for new books at #SCSC2026!

The two "New Books in Early Modern Studies: Lightning Talks” panels highlight new works in early modern studies, with brief presentations from 25 different authors about their recently published scholarship.

@16csociety.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:01 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

Consider attending Materials and Making in the Meaning of Art at #SCSC2026. Organized by James Clifton and chaired by Rachel Daphne Weiss. The session will include the following papers:

@16csociety.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 12:03 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

The Bodies, Nature, Knowledge Track organizers are excited to announce a thrilling panel at this year’s #SCSC2026!

Female Bodies and Regimes of Legibility in the Seventeenth-Century Hispanic World

Organizer: Daniela Ruiz
Chair: Pablo F. Gómez
Papers include...

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:33 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

2) The organizers invite established and emerging scholars of art history as well as advanced graduate students to submit abstracts by December 15. The conference dates are Sept 24-25, 2027.

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@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:33 PMReposted by @erikagaffney.bsky.social

1) The cfp is out for AU's 10th Feminist Art History Conference! To apply, visit:

american.edu/fahc

Papers may address any time period (ancient to contemporary), region, and issue relevant to the ways in which gendered ideologies have shaped the visual arts and their study.

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@erikagaffney.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:04 PM

I'm excited to attend #SCS2026 this year - for the first time since 2023! Please contact me if you'd like to propose a book to @ceu-press.bsky.social, or hear about our new early modern program, or just catch up. DM me, or email me (at [email protected]). Really looking forward to seeing everyone!

Lower half of foxed paper background presents detail of a drawing of a town, including church steeples, with a text box in the center reading "2026 conference / Chicago, IL, October 29-October 31, 2026"

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