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Newly Expanded Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art to Open May 30, 2009

The Huntington’s growing American art collection will be presented in a redesigned space twice its previous size

 

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will open its newly expanded Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art on May 30, 2009, to reveal a completely transformed space in which its growing American art collection will be displayed in an area more than twice its previous size. With 16,379 square feet of reconfigured and redesigned galleries, the new area—comprising the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery, the previous home of The Huntington’s American art collection; and the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery, which previously displayed European works—will be one of the largest presentations in Southern California of American art from the colonial period through the mid-20th century.

 

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Gallery, south facade	The Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. View toward original Scott Gallery.  Credit: The Huntington
Gallery	The Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Credit: Weldon Brewster Photography
Gallery, garden view	The Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. View from across the Dorothy Collins Brown Garden.  Credit: Weldon Brewster Photography
Gallery, courtyard	Courtyard of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, with Nude Woman, 1927, marble, by Clara Leonora Huntington (1878–1965), Henry Huntington’s daughter.  Credit: Weldon Brewster Photography
19th, early 20th cent.	Ninteenth- and early-20th-century gallery in the new Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Credit: Tim Street-Porter
loggia	Loggia in the new Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Credit: Tim Street-Porter
mid-late 20th	Mid- to late-20th-century gallery in the new Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Credit: Tim Street-Porter
Washington	George Washington display in the new Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Credit: Tim Street-Porter
Puck installed	Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908), Puck, after 1854, marble, installed in the new Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Credit: Tim Street-Porter.
Sarah Jackson	John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), Sarah Jackson (Mrs. Henderson Inches), ca. 1765, oil on canvas. Collection: The Huntington. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Lear and Cordelia	Benjamin West (1738–1820), Lear and Cordelia, 1784, oil on canvas. Collection: The Huntington. Henry E. Huntington Bequest
Breakfast in Bed	Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Breakfast in Bed, 1897, oil on canvas. Collection: The Huntington. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Chimborazo	Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), Chimborazo, 1864, oil on canvas. Collection: The Huntington. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Long Leg	Edward Hopper (1882–1967), The Long Leg, ca. 1930, oil on canvas. Collection: The Huntington. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Lyric Suite	Drawing from Robert Motherwell's Lyric Suite, 1965, ink on paper. © 2008 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. /Licensed by VAGA, New York. Collection: The Huntington
Favrile vase	Tiffany and Co., Favrile Glass Fern Vase, 1892–93, glass. Collection: The Huntington. Purchased with funds from the Art Collector’s Council
Teapot	Joseph Richardson (1752–1831), Teapot, ca. 1795, silver. Collection: The Huntington. Gift of Peter Emerson Marble
Dining Table	Greene & Greene, Dining Table, Two Host Chairs, Two Side Chairs, Two Sideboards, and Chandelier of the Laurabelle A. Robinson House, 1905–06 Collection: The Huntington. Furniture: Gift of the estate of Henry M. Robinson. Chandelier: Gift of Randall L. Makinson and purchased with funds from the Avery Foundation and the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Zenobia	Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830–1908), Zenobia in Chains, 1859, marble. Collection: The Huntington. Purchased with funds from the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Bird drinks	Ed Ruscha, Bird Drinks Creek Dry, Fish Escapes, 1965, oil on canvas, 55 x 50 in. Collection of Joan and Jack Quinn, Beverly Hills, CA
Arts and Crafts	Early 20th century gallery featuring works of the Arts and Crafts movement.  Photo: Tim Street-Porter.
Early-mid 19th cen	Gallery highlighting portraiture and decorative arts from the early to mid-19th century.  Photo: Tim Street-Porter
Maher window	George Washington Maher (1864 – 1926) and Louis Millet (1856 – 1923), Leaded Glass Window from the James A. Patten House, Evanston, Illinois, 1901, clear, colored, and textured glass; gold leaf; lead.    Purchased with funds from Anne and Jim Rothenberg. Installation view.  Photo: Tim Street-Porter
Pandora installed	Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894), Pandora, 1858, marble. Installation view.  Photo: Tim Street-Porter
Silver case	Case containing silver and porcelain related to the theme “Consumption of Exotic Beverages: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate” from the Marble Silver Collection. Photo: Tim Street-Porter
Zenobia installed	Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830–1908), Zenobia in Chains, 1859, marble (center) and Puck, after 1854, marble (left); Chauncey Butler Ives (1810-1894), Ruth, 1853, marble (right). Installation view.  Photo: Tim Street-Porter.