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#Art: El Dolor humano (1921)
#Artist: #PilarMontanerMaturana (b. 1878/d. 1961; #🇪🇸)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Modernism #InSitu
Medium: Oil on canvas
242 x 197 cm (95.27 x 77.55 in)

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February 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Barn Owl / Tyto alba, c. 1790, by #SarahStone (married name #SarahSmith; British, 1762-1844). Source, Master Drawings New York, www.masterdrawingsnewyork.com/artworks/bar... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #SuperbOwlSunday #SuperbOwls
An 18th-century watercolor illustration by Sarah Stone of a barn owl
February 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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‘It’s not very French to change stuff’: how Claire Tabouret’s stained-glass windows cast Notre Dame in new light
by Kim Willsher for @theguardian.com
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‘It’s not very French to change stuff’: how Claire Tabouret’s stained-glass windows cast Notre Dame in new light
Five years after a fire destroyed most of the cathedral, the artist explains how her designs will give the landmark a modern makeover and the ‘contemporary gesture’ Emmanuel Macron promised
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February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Asian barred owlet, n.d., by #ElizabethGould (British, 1804-41). Source, @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy, www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/15/e... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #SuperbOwlSunday #SuperbOwls Superb Owl
A 19th-century drawing of an Asian barred owlet
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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The Priceless Legacy of Artemisia Gentileschi
A Curator's Perspective
by Judith Mann for the #ArtHerstory blog
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Artemisia Gentileschi | Her Priceless Legacy
Curator Judith W. Mann reflects on events from July 2018 to July 2019 that mark important milestones in perceptions today about Artemisia Gentileschi.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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#Art: Detroit (Ode to G.; 2016)
#Artist: #LornaSimpson (b. 1960)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #Conceptual
Medium: Ink and screenprint on clayboard
274.3 × 243.8 cm (9 x 8 ft)

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February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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#Photography: Compromise (2017)
#Artist: #AïdaMuluneh (b. 1974; #🇪🇹)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #Symbolism
Genre: #Portraiture
Medium: Archival digital print
80 × 80 cm (31 1/2 × 31 1/2 in)

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February 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Indian Eagle Owl / Bubo bengalensis, 1801-7?, by Lady #ElizabethSymondsGwillim (British, 1763-1807). Held by McGill Univ Rare Books & Special Colls, archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/ea... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #ElizabethGwillim #SuperbOwlSunday #SuperbOwls
A watercolor drawing of an Indian Eagle Owl from the very early 19th century
February 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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#Painting: El Banquete (2013-14)
#Artist: #GuillermoLorca (b. 1984; #🇨🇱)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary
Genre: #NarrativeArt #Symbolism
Medium: Oil on canvas
250 x 206 cm (98.42 x 81.10 in)

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February 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Watercolor Study of a #Rose, 1675, by #MariaSibyllaMerian, (German-born, 1647-1717). Held by the Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #RoseDay #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
A watercolor study of an almost globular pink rose from the side, on its stem, with leaves. On a separate sprig on the same branch is a rosebud, also shown from the side. There is a line of handwriting in German at the top right, and five lines of handwriting in German at the lower left, which include the artist's signature, and the date.
February 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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The Cheerful Abstractions of Alma Thomas
by Alexandra Kiely for the #ArtHerstory blog
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The Cheerful Abstractions of Alma Thomas
Alexandra Kiely here provides background about the life and art of American abstract painter Alma Woodsey Thomas.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Still Life with Watermelon, 1822, by #SarahMiriamPeale (American, 1800-85), who died #otd, Feb 4. Held by the Fogg Museum, Harvard, harvardartmuseums.org/collections/... #artherstory #womenartists
A still life painting of fruit on a wooden ledge - including one half of a honeydew melon, cut side up; a couple of bunches of black grapes with vine and leaves; a chunk of cut watermelon; a bunch of green grapes with a leaf; and behind that leaf, two peaches. Sitting on the ledge in front of the watermelon is a little piece of the fruit's flesh, with seeds.
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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#Art: Candy (2021) 
#Artist: #TschabalalaSelf (b. 1990)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Portraiture #NarrativeArt
Medium: Fabric, felt, acrylic paint, flashe paint, pigment and dyed and painted canvas on canvas
243 x 243 cm (96 x 96 in)

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February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Learn about this artist in Erika Piola's #ArtHerstory guest post "Visual Feasts: The Art of Sarah Mapps Douglass," artherstory.net/visual-feast...
Visual Feasts | The Art of Sarah Mapps Douglass
Erika Piola provides an overview of the art, life and achievements of 19th-century Black American Sarah Mapps Douglass.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Self Portrait of #IreneParentiDuclos (nicknamed Lincasta Ericinia; Italian, 1754-95), who died #otd, Feb 5. Held at the Uffizi Galleries; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Se..., photo by AWA Foundation #artherstory #womensart #IreneDuclos
A bust length portrait of a white woman with dark hair and dark eyes. her hair is piled high on her head, and is wound through with pearls. The round neck of her black dress is embroidered in gold with a design if interlocking waves. At front center is an embroidered medallion in the center of which is the bust of a man in a hat (a soldier?), looking sideways. Around the medallion are a few flower stems. The woman's head tilts slightly toward her right shoulder, next to which her uplifted right hand is visible, holding a stylus.
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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The martyrdom of #SaintAgatha, 1577, engraved by #DianaScultori (Italian, before 1530-after 1588) after Ippolito Costa. Held at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i... #artherstory #womenartists #StAgatha #FeastofStAgatha
An engraved depiction of a haloed woman kneeling on one knee between two men - on a soldier, the other wielding the instrument of her torture. He is apparently about to remove one of her breasts, which is bared.
February 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Portrait of a Lady possibly of the Buccleuch Family, n.d., by #KatherineRead (or #CatherineRead; Scottish, 1723-1778), who was born #otd, Feb 3. Held by The Rhodes Trust, Oxford; source, "Finding Catherine Read," by Adam Busiakiewicz, artherstory.net/finding-cath... #artherstory #womenartists
An 18th-century portrait of a white woman, facing the right edge of the painting. Much of her brown hair is visible under a white cap draped with pearls. She wears a scoop-necked white dress under a light blue drape, fastened at the right shoulder with a metallic clasp decorated with a pearl that matches a similar embellishment at the center front of the white dress.
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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#Art: A Small Hope (2024)
#Artist: #WiwiSchrøder (b. 1988; #🇩🇰)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Figurativism #Contemporary
Medium: Oil on canvas 
60 x 80 cm (23.62 x 31.49 in)

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February 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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#Art: El final (2013) 
#Artist: Lucía Maya (b. 1953; #🇲🇽)
#ArtMovement/Style: #VisualArt #Contemporary
Genre: #AbstractLandscape
Medium: Oil on canvas
126 x 156.5 cm (49.60 x 61.61 in)

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January 31, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Lady while you are young, and beautiful…, c. 1836–37, by #SarahMappsDouglass (American, 1806-82). From the Elizabeth Smith Friendship Album, held at Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard Univ; source, artherstory.net/visual-feast... #artherstory #womenartists #BlackHistoryMonth
A drawing on paper, contained in an album, of a rose, a rosebud, two violas, and a sprig of a plant with small blue flowers. At the bottom of the page are three lines of text in cursive, and the writer's initials.
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Long-Lost Portrait by a Renaissance Trailblazer Resurfaces at New York’s Winter Show
For years, the painting was only known through a black-and-white photo.
by Eileen Kinsella for Artnet News
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Long-Lost Portrait by a Renaissance Trailblazer Resurfaces
A rare 16th-century Italian Rennaisance portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola is the surprise star of New York's annual Winter Show.
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January 31, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Self-portrait of Camilla Guerrieri painting Vittoria della Rovere, c. 1640, by #CamillaGuerrieriNati (#CamillaGuerrieriNati; Italian, 1628–after 1693). Held by Uffizi Galleries; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... #womenartists #artherstory
A painting in an elaborate carved gold-colored frame, of a woman holding a palette, brush uplifted in her right hand. In front of her is an easel on which is a portrait she's painting; between the easel and the artist the sitter is visible, under a red drape. The artist turns her head over her left shoulder to look directly - and unsmilingly - at the viewer.
February 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Eurasian treecreeper, 1770-1800, by #AnnLee (British, 1753-1790). Held by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, rammcollections.org.uk/collections/... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
A watercolor and gouache on paper drawing of two treecreepers on a dead treetrunk in a landscape. At the top, one bird leans over upside down toward the 2nd bird, who sits upright on a branch. The two curved bills do not quite touch. Underneath the drawing is the legend CERTHIA. Familiaris
January 30, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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#Art: Too much caffeine (2024)
#Artist: #SeulaYi (b. 1990; #🇰🇷)
#ArtMovement/Style: #VisualArt
Genre: #UrbanLandscapes #Cityscape
Medium: Oil on can
130 × 91 cm (51 1/5 × 35 4/5 in)

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January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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New post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

Three Historic #WomenArtists Exhibitions: A Dispatch from Italy
by Alessandra Masu
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Read about:

- Women in Spanish Naples in the C17th;
- Diana Scultori; and
- Maria Barosso
Three exhibitions of historic women artists | A Dispatch from Italy
Alessandra Masu discusses three museum exhibitions in Italy—Naples, Milan and Rome—that focus on historic women artists.
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January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM