Skip to content

OPEN TODAY: 10AM - 5PM

Tickets

Past Exhibitions


Exhibitions

Bruce Davidson Paul Caponigro

Nov. 8, 2014–March 10, 2015

This traveling exhibition pairs for the first time 128 works by American photographers Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) and Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), enlightened observers of Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and '70s.

Exhibitions

Highlights of American Drawings and Watercolors

July 19, 2014–Jan. 6, 2015

Thirty rarely seen masterworks from The Huntington's significant collection of American drawings and watercolors are on view during this six-month-long exhibition.

Exhibitions

Wrestling with Demons

Aug. 29, 2014–Dec. 15, 2014

This focused exhibition explores the darker side of the imagination through a variety of works on paper depicting death, witchcraft, and the demonic in European art.

Exhibitions

Your Country Calls!

Aug. 1, 2014–Nov. 3, 2014

Posters from World War I spotlight the use of graphic arts as propaganda

Exhibitions

Albrecht Dürer

May 10, 2014–Aug. 26, 2014

This exhibition features a selection of 33 of Dürer's most highly regarded prints, which range from small woodcuts to large and ambitious engravings. Originally created for a sophisticated audience from all corners of Europe, the pieces encompass a spectrum of religious and secular themes in rich and complex ways.

Exhibitions

Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes

March 15, 2014–June 23, 2014

In 1932, The Huntington's curator of manuscripts, Reginald Haselden, received a letter from Harold Willoughby at the University of Chicago, who had enclosed one of four illuminated manuscript leaves that an antiquities dealer was offering for sale.

Exhibitions

Topography to Tourism

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.

Exhibitions

Seduction in Stone

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.

Exhibitions

Sargent Claude Johnson: A Masterpiece Restored

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.

Exhibitions

Crossing the Alps

Sept. 28, 2013–Jan. 14, 2014

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