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The Trustees of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens are delighted and proud to name Professor Laura E. Skandera Trombley, Huntington Library President Emerita, as the recipient of The Dixon Wecter Distinguished Professor of American Literature Award.

Documenting one of the most creative and influential periods in Southern California architecture, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this fall presents "Architects of a Golden Age: Highlights from The Huntington's Southern California Architecture Collection."

The exhibition "Project Blue Boy" will open at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on Sept. 22, 2018, offering visitors a glimpse into the technical processes of a senior conservator working on the famous painting as well as background on its history, mysteries, and artistic virtues.

The Art Collectors' Council of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has purchased two panel paintings by Italian Renaissance master Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507). Saint Ansanus and Saint Anthony Abbot, made in about 1470, originally formed the lower third of an altarpiece

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will partner with East Los Angeles College's Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) for the third year of The Huntington's /five initiative, inviting noted Los Angeles artists Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. to create new work

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has named Joel A. Klein as the inaugural Molina Curator of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Klein, a historian of early-modern science and medicine on fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, joined the staff on Feb. 1.

A spectacular trove of thousands of valentines and related material—some dating as far back as the late 17th century—has been given to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, the institution announced today.

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.