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Sculpture of kneeling woman with hands clasped, standing man holding up arm with broken chain.

Portrait bust of a woman.

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Dutch and Flemish Women Artists | A Major Art Exhibition at NMWA This post describes, discusses and illustrates the 2025 art exhibition "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750" in Washington DC.

For thoughts on the earlier iteration of the show "Unforgettable," see

Dutch and Flemish Women Artists—A Major Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, by Erika Gaffney
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9 artworks by Dutch or Flemish women artists, arranged in 3 rows of 3 images each. There are 3 works that portray human figures, including 2 self portraits; and 6 floral or botanical still lifes. All of these images are reproduced on Art Herstory note cards.

For more perspective on this topic, see

"A Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists"
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These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians? An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame

These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians?
An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame
by Kristina Foster for @financialtimes.com

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Enchanted Wood How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities of Depression-era publishing in Britain, urb...

Joan Hassall is 1 of 4 #womenartists featured in

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain,
by Kristen Bluemel, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...
@uminnpress.bsky.social, 2026

#womenartists #artherstory

A b&w print depicting a half-timbered house in the background, with the text "The Sheldon Arms" in all caps across the base of the chimney. In the foreground is the bottom portion of tree with a think trunk, with a gap next to the ground and another gap (hole) between the two main branches.

The Stricken Oak (for 'Portrait of a Village' by Francis Brett Young),1937, by #JoanHassall, OBE (British, 1906-1988) who died #otd, Mar 6. Held by the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social, www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

#womenartists #artherstory

Catherine Opie’s powerful portraits of innocence Hettie Judah is captivated by the photographer’s seriously thoughtful approach to adolescence

‘She gives her sitters the space to expand and become mysterious’ – Hettie Judah on Catherine Opie’s powerful portraits of adolescents

A vertically narrow rectangular collage of a group of narcissus against a dark background. There are four blooms presented from the front and two, barely visible toward the back, from the side. in the lower right are the artist's initials in red. In the lower left is a handwritten label in dark ink within a rectangle of white.

Narcissus, 1776, by #MaryDelany (English, 1700-1788). Held at The @britishmuseum.bsky.social, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i... #womenartists #artherstory #NarcissusDay #hernaturalhistory

A grid of 18 square images, all details of artworks by historic women artists, arranged in three rows of 6 details each. The artworks represented include paintings, drawings, a sculpture and an engraving. Among the paintings are portraits, still lifes, landscapes, botanical art, and biblical- or mythological-themed works

Museum Exhibitions about Historic Women Artists: 2026
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The Big Review | The Woman Question 1550-2025 ★★★★½ Works spanning centuries have been brought together in an exhibition highlighting how hard-fought women’s rights are under constant threat

The Big Review | The Woman Question 1550-2025 ★★★★½
Works spanning centuries have been brought together in an exhibition highlighting how hard-fought women’s rights are under constant threat
by Alyce Mahon for @theartnewspaper.bsky.social
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19th-century portrait of a seated woman wearing a long black dress with a high collar and long sleeves. Her brown hair is tied up on top of her head. The background is unfinished

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists.

Here is C 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-cadman-to-cuthill-18094

'Portrait of a Woman' by Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) 📸 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

#WomensHistoryMonth

Ornate room with intricate carved furniture, patterned wallpaper and a large open doorway revealing a sunlit garden with potted plants.

Thanks for taking part in this week's #OnlineArtExchange 💞

Next week's theme is 'books' for Lady Chatterley’s Cover: The Book Designs of Stephen Russ at Chippenham Museum

🧑‍🎨 Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) 📷 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

With a million artworks on Art UK, you'll probably find an artwork for pretty much anything!

Join Verity Babbs as she explores some of the more niche events in the calendar, first up is British Pie Week 🥧

'A Village Bakehouse' by Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859–1912) 📷 Penlee House Gallery & Museum

DENMARK
The first money is now being allocated for
STATUES OF OVERLOOKED WOMEN
in urban spaces.
Danish Arts Fund will allocate a million to co-finance new statues.
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Six women bale hay with a red hay baling machine

Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee.

Discover D in our A-Z of women artists 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-dabis-to-dwight-18093

🧑‍🎨 Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 Museum Wales

Marie Wilson’s first San Francisco solo show in 40 years reclaims a surrealist pioneer In her first solo San Francisco show since 1984, Marie Wilson’s work surprises, delights and is overdue for rediscovery.

Marie Wilson’s first San Francisco solo show in 40 years reclaims a surrealist pioneer
by Tony Bravo for @sfchronicle.com
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Autorretrato, s/d Tal día como hoy 6 de marzo nació la pintora alemana Dora Stock (1760 – 1832)

Portrait of a Woman, 1820 Tal día como hoy 6 de marzo nació la miniaturista estadounidense Anna Claypoole Peale (1791 –1878)

Autorretrato, 1839 Tal día como hoy 6 de marzo nació la pintora sueca Sofia Adolfina Adlersparre (1808 - 1862)

Flowers With a Butterfly, s/d Tal día como hoy 6 de marzo nació la pintora británica Annie Feray Mutrie (1826 –1893)

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Rubens Peale, 1822, by #AnnaClaypoolePeale (American, 1791-1878), who was born #otd, Mar 6. Held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, americanart.si.edu/artwork/rube... #womenartists #artherstory

A miniature portrait in an oval frame of a young white woman with brown curly hair, worn up on her head. She wears a low cut light blue gown with gauzy white trim across the top.

Madame Lallemand, 1810s, by #AnnaClaypoolePeale (American, 1791-1878), who was born #otd, Mar 6. Held by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, www.pafa.org/museum/colle... #womenartists #artherstory

The new rules of collecting Old Masters Next-gen collectors are propelling lesser-known names to ever-greater heights

The new rules of collecting Old Masters
by Emma Crichton-Miller for @financialtimes.com
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Exciting to learn that Colnaghi & Lullo Pampoulides, respectively, will display paintings by Lavinia Fontana & Artemisia Gentileschi!

#womenartists #artherstory

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

An allegorical figure, painted at about half length in murky tones of brown and green, with brown hair pulled up in a bun. She gazes upward at her uplifted left hand, in which is held a tool that is cut off by the corner of the artwork. Her right hand holds a stylus or similar implement; it rests on a globe next to the corner of a table on which there is a celestial map and an hour glass.

Allegory of Astronomy, 1640s, by #ArtemisiaGentileschi (Italian, 1593-after 1654). Private collection; source, www.facebook.com/female.artis... #womenartists #artherstory

An illustration with a pussy willow in the foreground, in which rests a small figure (a fairy?)with blond hair, wrapped in a gray blanket. In the background is a furrowed field dusted with snow, behind which lies a ridge of hills. Toward the lower right corner is a placard filled with 8 lines of handwritten text in Swedish.

Now open at Thiel Gallery -

Enchanted Daily Life. Elsa Beskow
www.thielskagalleriet.se/en/utstallni...

The show runs thru 24 May 2026

Pictured: Sleep, little pussy willow, it's winter anyway..., by Elsa Beskow; Nationalmuseum

Stepping Into the Light: Women Artists and Creative Kinships | Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum March, as Women’s History Month, invites us to reconsider the stories we have inherited and to ask who, historically, has been framed in the foreground and who has been cast in shadow. For many women ...

Stepping Into the Light: Women Artists and Creative Kinships
by Amalia Wojciechowski, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
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#hernaturalhistory

An Art Herstory Sofonisba Anguissola journal inside an elaborate gold colored frame with roses in each corner. "Women's History Month" is inscribed in a kind of cartouche inserted just above the bottom of the frame.

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth!

Celebrate by treating yourself to Art Herstory's blank lined journal, created to commemorate the 400th anniversary (in Nov 2025) of Sofonisba Anguissola's passing in 1625. Available at

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A clay head of a woman, face tilting downward.

Coming up Sat, March 7 -

Following a panel discussion at Colton Chapel, Lafayette College will dedicate a bust of Adrienne de Noailles (wife of the Marquis de Lafayette). The sculpture is the last work that Audrey Flack completed before her death in 2024.

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Artemisia Gold launches internationally | The Florentine A new international chapter for the nonprofit championing lost artistic legacies.

Artemisia Gold focuses on research and restoration of works by women and seems to stepping up to fill the gap left by the closure of Advancing Women Artists after the death of Jane Fortune

Photo of a woman standing with her back to the viewer, indoors but near a large plateglass window, in front of an easel on which sits an abstract painting with geometrical shapes in primary colors.

Fifth anniversary of the Women of the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social research project
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Cellules: Dialogues between materials, forms, and intimate narratives The word "Cellules" (Cells) is polysemic: it evokes both living structure, prison, studio, intimacy, but also the idea of breaking down barriers, mutation, and sisterhood. This exhibition brings toget...

Now on view - the inaugural exhibition opening of Musée Artistes Femmes!

Cellules: Dialogues between materials, forms, and intimate narratives
Espace Louve
March 4 – June 4, 2026

www.le-maf.ch/en/post/cell...

A drawing in gouache on paper of four bright orange, papery Chinese lantern husks. Toward the upper left corner are 3 husks, grouped together, touching, with 2 in the back and one up front. The one in front is split such that the viewer can see the orange seed inside. In the lower right corner sits a single husk.

Chinese Lantern, 1770-1815, by #CarolineFriederikeFriedrich (German, 1749-1815), who was born #otd, Mar 4. Held by Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collectio...

#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory