Maritime

Britain and the Sea: Maritime Drawings and Watercolors from The Huntington’s Art Collections

This focused exhibition features fifteen rarely seen drawings and watercolors by marine artists such as John Thomas Serres, Charles Bentley, and Samuel Owen, depicting important battles and dramatic, romantic views of wind-tossed ships revealing a nation passing from the threat of war to command a prosperous peace.

Silverpoint Drawing Workshop

Nov. 3 & 10 (Saturdays)

9 a.m.–2 p.m.

Students will learn the historic technique of silverpoint—drawing with a fine silver stylus or wire—as seen in the exhibition “Alpine Skeletons: Marsden Hartley Silverpoint Drawings.”  Artist Sylvana Barrett leads this two-part workshop. Members: $145.  Non-Members: $165.  Registration: 626-405-2128.

Botanical Illustration Series: Orchids in Watercolor

Oct. 20, 27 & Nov. 3

(Saturdays) 9 a.m–3 p.m.

Learn to accurately portray the unique features of orchid flowers, foliage, and roots in this botanical watercolor series led by artist Lisa Pompelli. Students should bring a small potted orchid plant to each class. Prior drawing skills are strongly recommended. Members: $275. Non-Members: $295. Registration: 626-405-2128.

Tai Chi Series

CLASS FILLED

Nov. 3–Dec. 15 (Saturdays)

9:15–10:45 a.m.

Discover the health and fitness benefits of tai chi in a seven-part series led by instructor Kathy Chyan.  This outdoor class is suitable for beginning and intermediate students. Members: $150. Non-Members: $170. Registration: 626-405-2128.

Strange and Fearful

A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American Civil War

Oct. 13, 2012–Jan. 14, 2013

A major exhibition of more than 200 original photographs related to the Civil War that explores how images explained, reflected, and shaped a national fixation on death and mourning.

Taste of Art: Renaissance and Baroque

CLASS FILLED 

Nov. 3 (Saturday)

9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Join chef and art educator Maite Gomez-Rejón for a discussion of The Huntington's collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures, then head to the kitchen to prepare a meal inspired by period cookbooks. Members: $80. Non-Members: $90.  Registration: 626-405-2128.

Alpine Skeletons

Alpine Skeletons: Marsden Hartley Silverpoint Drawings

Oct. 20, 2012–Jan. 7, 2013

In 21 rarely exhibited silverpoint drawings from The Huntington's collections, American artist Marsden Hartley rendered the immense Bavarian Alps with delicate lines, transforming them into wispy, airy abstractions he called “skeletons."

Just Cause

A Just Cause: Voices of the American Civil War

Sept. 22, 2012–Jan. 7, 2013

Drawn entirely from The Huntington’s collections of manuscripts and printed materials, this exhibition examines the ways Northerners and Southerners viewed the rationale for the Civil War, which made it, in the words of one war veteran, “a battle of ideas interrupted by artillery.”