Art History

Firsts

Emma Stebbins, New York’s First Woman to Win a Public Sculpture Commission

by The AWT Editors

Art History

Eva Gonzalès, Manet’s Only Student, Finally Gets Her Retrospective

by The AWT Editors

Visionary Art

Messages From the Other Side: Two Exhibitions by Laura Whitcomb in Los Angeles

by Alexia Marmara

Toshiko Okanoue: Home in an Age of Fragmentation

by Micaela Brinsley

Doors into the Present: Dorothea Tanning and the Art of Becoming

by Micaela Brinsley

Ovartaci and the Refusal of Fixed Identity

by Alexia Marmara

Another Dimension

Sofía Bassi: Painter of Worlds Within Worlds

by Alexia Marmara

Signs

Barbara Kruger: The Context of Text

by Micaela Brinsley

Expression

Helen Frankenthaler: On Art and the Politics of Emancipation

by Micaela Brinsley

Méret Oppenheim: Fame and the Myth of Aging

by Micaela Brinsley

Maruja Mallo and Her Fight Against the World Order

by Micaela Brinsley

Leonor Fini’s Art: Witches, Sphinxes, and a Life Outside Surrealism

by Micaela Brinsley

Remembering Hilma af Klint: Her Art, Legacy, and Desire for Privacy

by Micaela Brinsley

Memory

Chloë Cassens on Preserving the Legacy of Jean Cocteau

by The AWT Editors

Memory

Isabel Quintanilla’s Window into Contemporary Spanish Realism

by Teresa Brock Moneo

More than Just Casual: The Art of Barbara Longhi

by Micaela Brinsley

Alice Neel’s Portraits and the Force of Her Character

by Micaela Brinsley

Imagination

Leonora Carrington: The Moments Before a Legacy

by Micaela Brinsley

Veronica Franco: The almost-forgotten courtesan

by Emily Linstrom

Exploring Art

Exploring art as friendship: a possible approach

by Micaela Brinsley

When AI meets art: 13 rose bush paintings in the style of famous female artists

by The AWT Editors

The Embodied Art of Maria Lassnig

by The AWT Editors

Mothers & Children

The Quiet Triumph of Mary Cassatt

by The AWT Editors

The French Master Suzanne Valadon

by The AWT Editors

Miniature Portraits

Sarah Goodridge and the Art of Miniature Portraits

by The AWT Editors

Louise Nevelson’s Art and Legacy

by The AWT Editors

Post-War Artist Erna Rosenstein: Exploring Surrealism, Trauma, and Whimsy

by The AWT Editors

Picturing Women in Action: From the Sabine Women to Artemisia Gentileschi

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

The Cultural History of Witches and Deadly Creatures—and Why It Still Matters Today

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Gender & Identity

Multimedia Artist Lorna Simpson’s Works Confront Narrow Views of Gender and Identity

by The AWT Editors

Historical Shoe Trends, Sexual Constructs and the Need to Take Up Space

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Forget Le Corbusier. Meet Charlotte Perriand and Lilly Reich.

by Dora Vanette

Cindy Sherman and Female Representation in Art

by Jackie Zimmermann

Between Life and Death: Some Considerations on Picturing Breasts from the 16th Century to Mary Cassatt

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Feminist Art History

Why History’s Greatest Male Artists Depended on Female Nudes

by Allison Geller

How Pink and Blue Became Gendered Colors

by Dora Vanette

A Look into The History of Black Dresses and Why There’s Nothing “Little” About Them

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Rethinking Halloween: Female Monsters and Why They Rule

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

As the Met Reopens, an Art Historian Reflects on Favorite Works

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Grandma Moses: From Housekeeper to Million-Dollar Artist

by Jackie Zimmermann

Well Suited: Perspectives on Dress and Gender in Art

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Moving Feasts and Still Lifes: Food, Art, and Women in History

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Splitting Hairs: Historical Styles and Angst Over Lockdown Haircuts

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Painter Katya Granova Inserts Own Presence Through Images From the Past

by The AWT Editors

A Woman’s Touch: A Brief History of Healing Hands

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

Waiting to Inhale: Reflections on Historical Illness During COVID-19

by Yassana Croizat-Glazer

The Magic and True Meaning of Hysteria

by Allie Rowbottom

Phaidon’s “Great Women Artists” Is Highlighting the Gender Gaps in Art

by Morgan Everhart

Irma Stern: Portrait of an Early 20th Century Millennial

by Alex Tyson

“I Am Queen Mary” – Monument of a Rebel Queen Challenges Denmark’s Forgotten Colonial Past

by The AWT Editors

Berenice Abbott, Practitioner Of “Straight Photography”

by Jackie Zimmermann

Why is “Mother Nature” a Woman?

by Jackie Zimmermann

06 Rejection

No Great Women Artists: A Lesson to Be Learned

by Dora Vanette

Pathmakers Exhibit Highlights Postwar Women’s Art

by Serena Maszak

Translating Feminism at MoMA

by Allison Geller