Past Exhibitions

Jan. 18, 2014–May 6, 2014

This exhibition explores the link between topography and tourism in the development of British landscape painting from the late 17th to the early 19th century.

Dec. 21, 2013–April 15, 2014

Carved by the most famous French portrait sculptor of his day, this magnificent bust celebrates the ravishing beauty of Anne-Germaine Larrivée.

Oct. 12, 2013–Jan. 21, 2014

Best known for his imagery of animals and people, particularly African and Native Americans, rendered in Abstract Figurative and early modern styles, Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) was one of the first African American artists in California to achieve a national reputation. He worked as a painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, but is best known as a sculptor.

Sept. 28, 2013–Jan. 14, 2014

This focused exhibition displays 15 works by Flemish, Dutch, German, and Italian artists from The Huntington's collections.

Sept. 28, 2013–Jan. 13, 2014

Bringing together works from Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others, "Face to Face" will juxtapose Flemish and Italian works in thematic groupings, exploring the form of the diptych, the depiction of the face of Christ, the evolution of portraiture, elements of landscape painting, and the virtuosic rendering of forms and textures.

Aug. 17, 2013–Jan. 7, 2014

An international loan exhibition examines the life of the iconic priest and mission-era California.

May 1, 2013–Jan. 1, 2014

The Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West present an innovative, web-based digital exhibition with more than a dozen authors, critics, and scholars curating photographs from the 70,000-strong Southern California Edison archive at The Huntington.

June 1, 2013–Dec. 3, 2013

The Cottage Door (ca. 1780) is one of Thomas Gainsborough's most famous paintings. The idealized scene of rustic country life was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780, but both the subject and the composition continued to haunt the artist, and he repeated the design twice during the course of the decade.

July 27, 2013–Nov. 19, 2013

In the 18th and 19th centuries, historians, bibliophiles, and collectors turned ordinary books into extraordinary "illuminated palaces"—repositories for original art, prints and engravings, maps, autograph letters, and the excised pages of other, more famous books.

June 22, 2013–Sept. 24, 2013

This exhibition of 11 prints from The Huntington's collections complements "Revisiting The Cottage Door: Gainsborough's Masterpiece in Focus," and explores the question of whether an artwork is "by" its purported maker when it is a print.