Past Exhibitions

"Venice: Real and Imagined" explores how a truly unique city has enthralled artists, while its otherworldly character has driven many to re-create its seemingly impossible beauty.

Documenting one of the most creative and influential periods in Southern California architecture, "Architects of a Golden Age" spotlights about 20 original drawings and plans selected from The Huntington's important Southern California architecture collection.

A selection of 18 drawings, wallpapers, and colorful textiles from The Huntington's Morris & Co. holdings.

Approximately 25 works on paper by British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) representing the interrelationship of shape and mass, exploring the themes of creation, the body, life, and death. |

Bringing together works from Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others, "Face to Face" will juxtapose Flemish and Italian works in thematic groupings, exploring the form of the diptych, the depiction of the face of Christ, the evolution of portraiture, elements of landscape painting, and the virtuosic rendering of forms and textures.

This traveling exhibition of original botanical artworks spotlights one of the planet's most important and beautiful resources-its trees-as cultivated by botanical gardens and arboreta, highlighting the role public gardens play in engaging visitors with trees and their ecological and utilitarian roles.

A rare set of exquisite lithographs depicting the pastel drawings of planets, comets, eclipses, and other celestial wonders by artist/astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895) are highlighted in the focused exhibition "Radiant Beauty: E. L. Trouvelot's Astronomical Drawings."

Nine rarely exhibited works on paper from The Huntington's collections demonstrate the great variety found in Grand Tour imagery, and reveal the many reasons artists traveled to Italy.

When the British public saw its first zebra in the mid-18th century, the black-and-white striped beast created quite a sensation. A similar degree of excitement is likely to greet the exquisite portrait of that celebrated animal when George Stubbs' Zebra (exhibited 1763) goes on temporary display at The Huntington.

A recently acquired painting on paper by artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), one of the most prominent British artists of the late 19th century, is on view in the Huntington Art Gallery's Works on Paper Room through March 19.

On October 31, 1517, German priest Martin Luther, who believed church doctrines created an ever-growing gap between believers and God, is said to have posted a document of what today are called the "95 theses"—his specific disputes—to the door of a church in Wittenberg to contest recent practices of the Catholic Church.

Thirty-two exquisite glass vases designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, on loan from a private collection, will be showcased in an exhibition opening this fall at The Huntington.