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A young person holds a drawing on paper while standing in front of a poster filled with colorful illustrations of sea creatures.
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Drawing Workshop: Drawing for the Planet

Tue., Nov. 12, 2024

Create portraits of some of the amazing species that inhabit The Huntington and the surrounding region with artist Jane Lee McCracken. This intergenerational workshop is suitable for adults and children 5 and up.

Overhead view of a table with an accordion style book and various crafting supplies.
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Family Workshop: Accordion Books

Sat., Sept. 21, 2024

Learn how to make an accordion-style artist book, featuring your own panoramic drawings or written compositions. This workshop is perfect for bookbinding beginners and no prior experience is needed.

Five people posing for camera, some holding small plants.
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K-12 Educator Saturday Workshop: Maintaining School Gardens over the Summer

Sat., June 22, 2024

Learn how to maintain your school garden during the summer break with expert advice from Andrew Lepore, Career Technical Education agriculture teacher.

The Betye Saar Art Box

Celebrate Betye Saar's artistic legacy and learn more about her work as you make art inspired by five of her artworks. Available in English and Spanish.

Detail of Preserve Co-Operation poster from 1917 designed by Carter Housh
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A Resurgence of Victory Gardens

Jul. 1, 2020

In an effort to increase self-sufficiency and reduce trips to the grocery store during our current pandemic, a growing number of people are adding vegetable and herb gardens to their own yards.

An open book with four columns, filled with accounting notes.
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Library Collectors’ Council Acquisitions for 2024

Apr. 23, 2024

The Huntington has acquired six extraordinary collections through the generosity of the Library Collectors’ Council, a group of supporters who help fund the purchase of new items to add to the Library’s holdings.

A painting of a landscape with a field under large trees and a cloudy sky.
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires Six Works, Expands the Range of the American Art Collection

Jun. 27, 2023

Spanning nearly 300 years, the acquisitions include works by Edward Mitchell Bannister, Agostino Brunias, Letitia Huckaby, Lilly Martin Spencer, Tiffany and Co., and Tyrus Wong.

Black line illustration of a plant viewed through a magnifying glass.

Pollinators Investigation

What is the population of pollinators in your garden space and what is their role in a plant’s life cycle? Work individually or collaboratively to produce data on pollinators in a garden, compare data collected by different groups and make inferences about the role of pollinators in a plant’s life cycle.

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A Collections-Based Research and Educational Institution Our Mission:

Artist Betye Saar stands near a wood canoe in a blue room.
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Betye Saar’s “Drifting Toward Twilight”

Dec. 12, 2023

Betye Saar’s “Drifting Toward Twilight,” a site-specific installation commissioned by The Huntington, poetically connects the external realm to interior territories—The Huntington’s grounds to its galleries and the life of the body to the mind—and has also been a way to manifest the artist’s personal history.

Golden tassels
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Who’s Behind the Curtain?

Dec. 28, 2018

Kathleen Quinn's elegant drapes accent the renovation of a grand staircaseIn advance of The Huntington’s Centennial celebration, which gets under way in the fall of 2019, Catherine Hess, chief curator of European art, decided that it was time to reimagine the décor...

Portrait of William Mulholland
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Lessons Learned: Mulholland's Fatal Dam

May 14, 2016

Two historians assess Mulholland's responsibility for one of the nation's worst civil engineering disastersIn the critically acclaimed book Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster, historians Norris Hundley, Jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a detailed account and analysis of the collapse of the St. Francis Dam

Old map of Los Angeles
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Mapping a City on the Move

Jun. 20, 2019

Pioneer cartographer Laura L. Whitlock captured a megalopolis in the makingIn August 1919, Henry and Arabella Huntington drafted documents converting their San Marino ranch into a "library, art gallery, museum, and park."

Pictured on the front page of The Huntington's April/May 1970 calendar was a serene view of Lake Windermere in England's Lake District, where Wordsworth was born. Watercolor sketch by Francis Towne, 1786.
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The Year Was 1970

May 13, 2020

The Huntington's bimonthly newsletter has been in print for more than a half-century.

"Cultivating Curiosity" float in progress. Photo: Phoenix Decorating
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News Release - The Huntington Announces Riders for 2020 Rose Parade® Float

Dec. 5, 2019

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that its "Cultivating Curiosity" float in the 2020 Rose Parade® will host eight riders and will be followed by six walkers as it makes the 5.5-mile journey down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on New Year's Day.

2020-21 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

duncanson rocky landscape
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Three Artists, Three Visions

May 21, 2015

African-American Art at The HuntingtonThe Huntington continues to fill in gaps in its collecting areas, most recently by homing in on works by African-American artists.

Kelly Fernandez, head gardener of the Herb Garden and the Shakespeare Garden, harvests bundles of flax from The Huntington’s Herb Garden. Photo courtesy of Kelly Fernandez.
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A Fascination with Flax

Dec. 9, 2020

When Kelly Fernandez, head of the Herb and Shakespeare gardens, revived The Huntington’s Fiber Arts Day program in 2013 and saw expert craftspeople dyeing, spinning, and weaving fibers into incredible textiles, she couldn’t help but be intrigued.

A waterfall cuts through a crevice in a tall mountain range, disappearing behind a forest of trees.
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Another West: Ecologies of Photography

Feb. 27, 2024

An exploration of photography’s ecological dimensions provides an opportunity to reexamine the role that photography has played in documentation as well as environmental degradation. By examining photographs other than those of classic Western landscapes, we reconsider how Indigenous persons and settlers perceived and interacted with the environment.

Chinese Garden Tea House Complex

The Chinese Garden Tea House Complex is the most natural intimate setting in the expansive Chinese Garden, Liu Fang Yuan.

Print detail of early Californian gold miners
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California Gold Rush Landscapes

Aug. 19, 2020

In January of 1851, John R. Fitch, a gold prospector, penned these words to his brother: "The wear and tear of the mines is very great."

Portrait of John Ogilby from 1663
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John Ogilby’s English Restoration Fantasy

Mar. 28, 2018

John Ogilby was born in Scotland in 1600, died in London in 1676, and was, at various points in between, a dancing master, a theatrical impresario, a translator of Virgil and Homer, and a widely read geographer.

Hammersley Lead
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News Release - Exhibition to Reveal Abstract Painter Frederick Hammersley's Unique Creative Process, Meticulously Outlined in Personal Archives

Jul. 20, 2017

A fall exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on the American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings.

Group of dancers in the 20s in a row
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Let Us Entertain You

Oct. 20, 2015

Fanchon and Marco's big "Ideas" revolutionized the 1920s theater worldChances are you've never heard of Fanchon and Marco. But in the 1920s, millions of Americans had.