Past Exhibitions

As one of the first Chinese Americans admitted to the State Bar of California, Y.C. Hong was a major figure in the Los Angeles Chinese community during the period of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a federal law in effect from 1882 to 1943 that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States.

The 25 works on view in "American Made," ranging in date from 1700 to 1868, will be familiar to many visitors who have enjoyed them in the Scott Gallery in the past. Among them are paintings by the most influential American artists of the period, such as Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Frederick Edwin Church, along with representative pieces of furniture, silver, and sculpture.

During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the medium of drawing became a thriving industry for British artists, publishers, and draftsmen alike. Caricature was one of the most popular genres in this expanding field.

This exhibition celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by exploring the language and ideology of constitutionalism (both written and unwritten) and the rule of law.

This exhibition of about two dozen drawings, watercolors, and prints, drawn from The Huntington's collections, explores the great range of artistic styles employed by British artists through a period of dramatic social upheaval and change.

This exhibition features nine 18th-century pastels from The Huntington's holdings, which have not been on public view for nearly a decade.

Botanical artists have traditionally depicted conventionally beautiful flora. This exhibition showcases nature's oddities, plants of charismatic quirkiness that have a bizarre beauty all their own.

With Rome as its primary focus, this exhibition features the prints, drawings, and watercolors of 18th and 19th-century British artists from The Huntington's art collections.

Samuel F. B. Morse, of Morse code fame, may be better known as an inventor, but he began his career as a painter. This exhibition focuses exclusively on his masterwork, Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833), featuring great paintings from the Louvre's collection.

Timed to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Thirteenth Amendment, this exhibition explores the long, tortuous, and bloody road that led to that fateful vote. With more than 80 items, drawn entirely from The Huntington's rich collection of historical materials, it features rare manuscripts, books, and prints, including letters by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

As one of Britain's premier draftsmen, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) lent his vast talent to the comic depiction of a wide range of topics, from politics to pornography. His satirical views of Georgian society are among his strongest work, and The Huntington's collection focuses primarily on this aspect of his oeuvre.

The Huntington's newly acquired painting, The Three Witches or The Weird Sisters by Anglo-Swiss painter Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), appears to be a finished, full-size study for one of the artist's best-known compositions.