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![Artwork by John Frame](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/exhibitions/grid/frame_sq.jpg.webp?itok=ReTRvbyr)
Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame
Some three dozen intricately carved sculptures by Southern California artist John Frame take center stage in a new exhibition that brings together a body of work carefully assembled over the past five years, featuring sculpture, still photography, and stop-motion animation.
![Last photograph of Abraham Lincoln](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/exhibitions/grid/lincoln_sq.jpg.webp?itok=CWryLqfw)
Collecting Lincoln
On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a new exhibition looks at the role of collectors in preserving his memory.
![Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Greenhouse Fantasies](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/yiadom-boakye_sq.jpg.webp?itok=m6ozmDfj)
News Release - Huntington to Present "The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye"
Recent paintings by contemporary British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will be on view Jan. 25–May 11, 2020, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. "The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye," is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als
![The cover of a diary, partially torn, with cursive writing.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2023-06/Verso-An%20American%20in%20London%20on%20the%20Eve%20of%20Revolution-1.jpg.webp?itok=wb50mIlX)
An American in London on the Eve of Revolution
The Huntington holds the diary of a merchant written during his time in London from December 1768 to April 1769. It offers a rare first-hand account of an American colonist’s experiences in London, just as relations between Britain and North America were deteriorating.
![Henry Meigs](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/of-rats_sq.jpg.webp?itok=oTRFGu9p)
Of Rats and Men
In the spring of 1838, Henry Meigs (1782–1861)—a veteran of the War of 1812, former U.S. Representative, and a successful lawyer—discovered that he was sharing his house
![Chinese woodblock print of a bird](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/tenbamboo-1.jpg.webp?itok=QHDFybXc)
Chinese Poetry, Painting, and Gardens
Sometimes an object comes along that has so many ties to an institution's collecting areas, it's hard for curators to pass it up. That's what happened in 2014, when The Huntington acquired the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting
![Snark, the vessel on which the Londons and their crew attempted an around-the-world trip, at anchor in Apia, Samoa, 1908](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/LondonParks-1.jpg.webp?itok=ZEcQwy3-)
Jack and Charmian’s National Park Adventures
In commemoration of the centennial of the creation of the National Park Service, The Huntington is mounting two related exhibitions. The first part, "Geographies of Wonder: Origin Stories of America's National Parks, 1872–1933," is on view through Sept. 5, 2016.
![William Martyns Historie, and Lives, of the Kings of England](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/francesb-1.jpg.webp?itok=zS3Gc9Ib)
Better than Bacon
Last February, a bookseller contacted me about a book he had taken on consignment. Its owner believed it came from the library of Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), the statesman, scientist, and (for a time) alleged author of the Shakespearean plays.
![A book full of seaweed](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/frontiers/images/seaweedbook_1.jpg.webp?itok=qG6aT9Xu)
A Book Full of Seaweed
Algology preserves a passionate engagement with the underwater worldThe documentary Chasing Coral (2017) brings coral close. Using underwater time-lapse photography, the film chronicles the catastrophic effects of global warming on coral reefs.
![A tangle of hands, legs, arms, trays, vases, French brie, and baguettes.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2024-04/Dominque-Fung-Sans-Les-Main.jpg.webp?itok=V0mQJVJZ)
News Release – 2023 Art Acquisitions Make Connections Across Time, Space, and The Huntington’s Collections
Spanning more than 450 years, the works come from a diverse group of artists from across the globe, including Edward Mitchell Bannister, Agostino Brunias, Dominique Fung, David Hockney, Letitia Huckaby, Mineo Mizuno, Kenjiro Nomura, Sandy Rodriguez, Betye Saar, Lilly Martin Spencer, Nari Ward, and Qiu Ying.
![The shiny, metallic patch on this bee orchid (Ophrys speculum) mimics the gleaming abdomen of a female bee. It is commonly known as the mirror orchid. Photo by Aric Allen.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/beemine_sq.jpg.webp?itok=Er-QiV97)
Bee Mine?
The story of pollination seems pretty basic: Plants provide incentives—most often sustenance in the form of nectar and pollen—to entice various animals to transport pollen from flower to flower.
![Adah Isaacs Menken](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/adahmenken-1.jpg.webp?itok=GQz-gxJo)
Who Was Adah Isaacs Menken?
In a library collection as deep as the one at The Huntington, it's not unusual for scholars to encounter items that propel them on new paths of research. That's what happened recently to The Huntington's 2015–16 Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, Shirley R. Samuels
![henry huntington sitting](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/henry-huntington-sitting-500_11.jpg.webp?itok=schPSbEc)
News Release - 1919, the Year of The Huntington's Founding, is Subject of Sweeping Centennial Exhibition
"Nineteen Nineteen," the major exhibition of the Centennial Celebration at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, will open on Sept. 21, 2019, demonstrating a pivotal year in world history with about 275 objects drawn from The Huntington's holdings.
![Al Martinez at his desk in 2012](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/AlMartinez-1.jpg.webp?itok=HYiciJSY)
Al Martinez, Bard of L.A.
It was Martinez's fault, happily, that for five decades his columns and writings inspired readers to think more deeply about the world around them and see more clearly the common humanity that binds people together.
![John Muir writing](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/lcc_john-muir-writing_500.jpg.webp?itok=mwZczKKp)
Press Release - Huntington Acquires Unique Edition of John Muir’s Writings and Exquisite Early Illustrated Book on Camellias
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a unique 10-volume edition of The Writings of John Muir (1916–1924) that incorporates 260 original photographs—most by Herbert W. Gleason (1855–1937), a nature photographer who inspired the work of Ansel Adams.
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News Release - Traveling Exhibition Spotlights One of the Planet's Most Important Resources: Trees
One of the planet's most important and beautiful resources—its trees—will be spotlighted in a traveling exhibition of contemporary botanical artworks, on view May 19–Aug. 27, 2018, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Elizabeth Allen
… was upheld under both canon and common law and up to five hundred people sought sanctuary every year What they …
![Early interior of the Huntington Library Building in 1919-1920](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/frontiers/images/founderyear_sq.jpg.webp?itok=5uUeU-pq)
A Founder and a Year
Henry and Arabella Huntington looked to the future by safeguarding the pastAlfonso C. Gomez, Henry E. Huntington’s longtime valet, sat for an interview in 1959, more than three decades after his employer’s death.
![John Singer Sargent, Sphinx and Chimera](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/originality_sq.jpg.webp?itok=v79KLo-l)
The Value of Originality
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) painted his evocative oil sketch Sphinx and Chimaera before 1921 to serve as a compositional guide for a much larger mural
![View into Ahmanson Reading Room from the hallway window](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/ahmanson-reading-room-500w.jpg.webp?itok=j7_kBJx8)
Welcoming the 2022–23 Research Fellows
June is a wonderful time of year at The Huntington: The flowers are in bloom, the gardens and galleries are bustling with visitors, and a fresh cohort of scholars are once again poring over our world-class collection of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, paintings, prints, and much more.
![Queensland kauri, Agathis robusta](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/agathis-verso-sq.jpeg.webp?itok=7KNplTdY)
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
On Sept. 24, 2021, a Queensland kauri (Agathis robusta) in The Huntington's Rose Garden was designated as a California Big Tree, The Huntington's first such honor. On Nov. 5, Matt Ritter, professor of botany at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, who serves as the coordinator for the California Big Tree Registry, paid a visit to The Huntington for a ceremony to officially certify the tree's status as the largest Queensland kauri in the state.
![Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), first page of a letter to Elisha Whittlesey (1783–1863), First Comptroller of the United States Treasury, March 3, 1863. Denis L. Shapiro Collection. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/extraordinary-expenses_sq.jpg.webp?itok=vTiS2P3b)
Extraordinary Expenses
In March 1852, Charles Devens, the United States Marshal for Massachusetts, submitted an expense report
![A group of teachers and a garden docent in the Herb Garden](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/TeachersColor_1.jpg.webp?itok=40gOcF6n)
Teachers Color the Summer Yellow
During their summer break, 30 selected teachers participated in the first Huntington Voices teacher institute, spending a week on site to learn from Education staff and others how to use The Huntington's collections to strengthen their student's voices through writing, spoken language, performance, and visual and media arts.
![View of Munger Research Center](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/fellows2017-1.jpg.webp?itok=_4afyiQs)
For They Are Excellent Fellows
This is one of the most exhilarating times at The Huntington—when the new cadre of research fellows arrive on our beautiful campus to explore our collections and take part in the intellectual life of this institution.
![William Allison Sweeney, History of the American Negro in the Great World War, 1919, Cuneo-Henneberry, Chicago. This photo in Sweeney’s book shows troops arriving in France. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/librarystory_500.jpg.webp?itok=giaggdsx)
The Library Tells the Story of “Nineteen Nineteen”
Once asked by the press if he planned to write a memoir, the famously private Henry E. Huntington demurred.