Christina M. O’Connell

Christina M. O’Connell is the Mary Ann and John Sturgeon Senior Paintings Conservator in the preservation department at The Huntington.

Verso

A microscope light illuminates a section of painting.
New Conservation Discoveries: Edward Hopper’s “The Long Leg”
Posted on Jan. 16, 2024
Hidden Within “The Three Witches”
Posted on Sep. 9, 2020
Henry Fuseli, The Three Witches, ca. 1785, oil on canvas, 24 ¾ x 30 ¼ in. (62.9 x 76.8 cm). Purchased with funds from The George R. and Patricia Geary Johnson British Art Acquisition Fund. The…
More Than Meets the Eye
Posted on Dec. 16, 2014
New painting acquisitions needing care now make a stop in The Huntington's conservation lab before being put on view. In the case of The Three Witches, there was more than met the eye. In 2012, The…

Frontiers

Henry Fuseli, The Three Witches, ca. 1785, oil on canvas, 24 ¾ x 30 ¼ in. (62.9 x 76.8 cm). Purchased with funds from The George R. and Patricia Geary Johnson British Art Acquisition Fund. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Hidden Within “The Three Witches”
Posted on Dec. 22, 2020

When The Huntington acquired Henry Fuseli's The Three Witches (ca. 1785) in 2014, I could immediately see clues that there was something to discover beneath its surface.