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Lifelines/Timelines: Exploring The Huntington’s Collections Through Bonsai

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Left: California juniper bonsai (Juniperus californica), styled from plant material approximately 500 years. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Frederic Edwin Church, Chimborazo, 1864 (detail.) The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), shakan or slant style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 200–300 years. Collected from the Mojave Desert, displayed in Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by Grigsby Cactus Gardens. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Early visitors tour The Huntington in an undated photo. The institution opened to the public in 1928. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), han-kengai or semicascade style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,500–1,800 years. Collected from Jawbone Canyon, Mojave Desert, displayed in pot made by Sara Rayner, collected, styled, and donated by Shig Miya. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: The Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, ca. 1400–1410. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), moyogi or informal upright style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,000 years. Collected from Jawbone Canyon, Mojave Desert, in 2002, grafted in 2006, and styled by Tak Shimazu, displayed in Keizan Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by the Bergstein Family. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Mark Catesby, Bull Frog (Rana maxima), Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 1743. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanica
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), Moyogi or informal upright style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,200–1,500 years. Collected from the Mojave Desert, displayed in Itayama Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by the Bergstein Family, on loan from the Golden State Bonsai Federation. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Edward Burne-Jones (designer) for Morris and Company, David Healey Memorial Window, 1898, glass and lead. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. The Huntington Library, Art Mus
Left: California juniper bonsai (Juniperus californica), styled from plant material approximately 500 years. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Frederic Edwin Church, Chimborazo, 1864 (detail.) The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), shakan or slant style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 200–300 years. Collected from the Mojave Desert, displayed in Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by Grigsby Cactus Gardens. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Early visitors tour The Huntington in an undated photo. The institution opened to the public in 1928. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), han-kengai or semicascade style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,500–1,800 years. Collected from Jawbone Canyon, Mojave Desert, displayed in pot made by Sara Rayner, collected, styled, and donated by Shig Miya. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: The Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, ca. 1400–1410. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), moyogi or informal upright style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,000 years. Collected from Jawbone Canyon, Mojave Desert, in 2002, grafted in 2006, and styled by Tak Shimazu, displayed in Keizan Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by the Bergstein Family. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Mark Catesby, Bull Frog (Rana maxima), Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 1743. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanica
Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), Moyogi or informal upright style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,200–1,500 years. Collected from the Mojave Desert, displayed in Itayama Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by the Bergstein Family, on loan from the Golden State Bonsai Federation. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Edward Burne-Jones (designer) for Morris and Company, David Healey Memorial Window, 1898, glass and lead. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. The Huntington Library, Art Mus

Left: California juniper bonsai (Juniperus californica), styled from plant material approximately 500 years. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Frederic Edwin Church, Chimborazo, 1864 (detail.) The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), shakan or slant style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 200–300 years. Collected from the Mojave Desert, displayed in Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by Grigsby Cactus Gardens. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Early visitors tour The Huntington in an undated photo. The institution opened to the public in 1928. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), han-kengai or semicascade style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,500–1,800 years. Collected from Jawbone Canyon, Mojave Desert, displayed in pot made by Sara Rayner, collected, styled, and donated by Shig Miya. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: The Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, ca. 1400–1410. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), moyogi or informal upright style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,000 years. Collected from Jawbone Canyon, Mojave Desert, in 2002, grafted in 2006, and styled by Tak Shimazu, displayed in Keizan Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by the Bergstein Family. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Mark Catesby, Bull Frog (Rana maxima), Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 1743. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Left: California juniper (Juniperus californica), moyogi or informal upright style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,200–1,500 years. Collected from the Mojave Desert, displayed in Itayama Tokoname pot from Japan, donated by the Bergstein Family, on loan from the Golden State Bonsai Federation. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. Right: Edward Burne-Jones (designer) for Morris and Company, David Healey Memorial Window, 1898, glass and lead. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Lifelines/Timelines graphic

Oct. 17, 2020–Jan. 25, 2021

Installations outside five galleries: Mapel Orientation Gallery, East Library, West Library, Huntington Art Gallery, and Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art