By September 2011, they found a 100-year-old store front with tin ceilings and tin walls that was originally a barbershop in Cranford’s idyllic main street. The shop would be named Artemisia, after Artemisia Gentileschi an Italian Baroque painter considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation after Caravaggio and the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
