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.

Viewing Stones Show

Dec. 27 through Jan. 2
(Closed Jan. 1)
10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

The California Aiseki Kai presents its 23rd annual show featuring more than 100 outstanding examples of suiseki and other viewing stones. Long a popular art form in Asia, viewing stones invite contemplation of their subtle, fanciful forms, shaped by nature, the elements, and time. Free.  Friends' Hall.

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.

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."

Bob Watson’s ‘Suiseki’ – Forty Years of Viewing Stones at The Huntington

Dec. 27 - Jan. 2

(closed Jan. 1)

10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

A special historical presentation of over 70 viewing stones (stones shaped by nature) collected by Robert T. Watson, former head of the Japanese Garden and an early American proponent of suiseki. On view in the Japanese Garden Ikebana House.

Steel and Stone: Forms from the Desert

Dec. 27 - Jan. 2

(closed Jan. 1)

10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Ten steel sculptures of desert flora by Khachik Khachatouryan will be on display with a selection of 28 desert stones from the American Viewing Stone Resource Center. Botanical Center Flora-Legium.

Extended Public Hours

The Huntington will be open 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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.”

Vance-Swallow

Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow

Nov. 10, 2012-March 11, 2013

In a dramatic departure from tradition, The Huntington presents the first exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture to be displayed inside the Huntington Art Gallery, showcasing the work of Los Angeles–based artists Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow.