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Melinda McCurdy has been promoted to curator of British Art at The Huntington. Photo by Ian McCausland.
You never know what will happen when Melinda McCurdy’s phone rings. “Sorry if I’m late!” she…
The exhibition “The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye” is on view through May 11 in the Huntington Art Gallery. Photo by Deborah Miller.
An installation of contemporary British paintings of…
Four of Cosimo Rosselli’s seven gilded panels from an altar piece cut up in the 1790s have been reunited for the first time at The Huntington. Photograph by Deborah Miller.
Something rare and…
Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) in normal light photography. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
In an exciting “first” for The Huntington, visitors this…
John Martin, British (1789–1854), The City of God, oil on canvas, 18 x 26 in., ca. 1850–51. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Adele S.…
Eunice Hooper’s Sampler, ca. 1790. Silk on linen, 21 x 21 ¼ in. Collection of Jonathan and Karin Fielding.
You might skip right past it. In a room of the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing dominated…
John Svenson with Sea Sprite in the exhibition “The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985,” George and MaryLou Boone Gallery, 2012. Photo by Lisa Blackburn.
You…
Richard Estes (b. 1932), eat'n time, 1968-1969, oil on Masonite, 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.). The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Laurence and Carol Pretty ©…
Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756–1827), ‘Tis Time to Jump Out, 1805. Pen and watercolor. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Gilbert Davis Collection.
The painter,…
Alexander Calder, Sphere and Spiral, 1975, wool, 41 x 59 in. Gift of the Berman Bloch Family. Copyright © 2015 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Huntington…
Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33), oil on canvas, 73 1/2 x 108 in. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
If asked to recall the accomplishments of Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), most people…
For the second year in a row, The Huntington has brought in an outside designer to make its holiday tree come alive. This year, it's artist Konstantin Kakanias.
The Huntington Art Gallery has a cool…
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), The Three Witches or The Weird Sisters, ca. 1785, oil on canvas, 24 ¾ x 30 ¼ in. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from…
The new year has some fascinating exhibitions on tap. Pictured here, a conservator repairs a tear in a medieval manuscript known as the Archimedes Palimpsest, the subject of a loan exhibition from…
Hans Memling, Christ Blessing (ca. 1480–85), oil on Baltic oak panel. Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection.
“Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting” is a jewel of an exhibition…
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 5, 1872. The letter begins on the right side of a creased sheet of paper and continues on the opposite side…
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788), The Cottage Door, ca. 1780, oil on canvas. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
The love affair between The Huntington and the…
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641), The Cheeke Sisters: Essex, Countess of Manchester and Anne, Lady Rich, c. 1640. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Los Angeles.
A special treat for art…
Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow, from “Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow” at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Nov. 10, 2012–March 11, 2013. Photography: Fredrik Nilsen…
Neptune prepares for his big move.
Everyone who visited The Huntington noticed him. Standing eight feet high, on a two-foot pedestal, the figure of the god of the sea, Neptune, loomed large over…
Who knew The Huntington was so rich in works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods? If you’re in the mood for some splendor, along with a stunning reminder that The Huntington’s art collections…
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), The Music Room, ca. 1858. Gift of Hannah and Russel Kully. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Google "Whistler's Mother" and…
Vernal Falls.
Photograph collectors get a glint in their eyes when you mention Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). Named "California's first major artist" by the Los Angeles Times' Christopher Knight, the…
Mirror with Quatrefoil, Grass Motifs, Stars, and Linked Arc; inscribed; China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Photograph by Bruce M. White, 2009.
At the opening events late last week for "…
A room display from the "Arts of Daily Living" exhibition, as photographed by Maynard L. Parker. Copyright Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
It's 1954. Where do you go to…
Video interview with Sam Maloof by Peter Kirby circa 1990.
Peter Kirby, an L.A. producer specializing in art and culture, filmed woodworker Sam Maloof in his workshop and home in 1990. We're…
Lady Caroline, Countess of Carlisle, 1773, James Watson after Joshua Reynolds, mezzotint. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Huntington curators call the second half of the…
One of the French rooms in the Huntington Art Gallery just got a little fancier. Arranged among paintings like the Knitter Asleep by Jean Baptiste Greuze and The Country Dance by Jean-Antoine Watteau…
Jay Raveling of the company Associated Mount Making helps install the new bust.
While The Huntington was closed to visitors on Tuesday, a crew of several preparators and curators mounted a big 400-…
Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967), Untitled , 1937; carved, painted, and gilded redwood; 8 ft. 9 in. tall at the highest point x 22 ft. long x 2 in. deep.
Update: The Huntington's Art Collectors'…
John Harrison Mills, Artist Painting a Satirical Painting (detail), ca. 1870s—80s, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 1/2 inches. Collection of Jean and Alvin Snowiss.
A red-caped knight in golden armor rears…
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) Penelope (Pitt), Viscountess Ligonier (1770), oil on canvas, copyright The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Here's a scandal: While the…
The pedestrian blue, red, and white of the Brillo boxes are shocking. They catch your eye before you even enter the gallery, signaling that something different is going on in that room—very unlike…
Pisanello (Italian, ca. 1395–1455), John VIII Paleologus, emperor of Constantinople, 15th century, cast from model of 1438–39, lead. University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.…
A bronze from the Marino Collection—Bacchus and Ariadne, by Corneille van Clève (1642–1732), cast in France, early 18th century.
Christopher Slatoff is a figurative sculptor who works in bronze,…
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The Huntington is the new home of a residential mural by Millard SheetsFor many of us who grew up in Southern California, Millard Sheets' mid-20th century public murals are among the indelible images of our childhoods.