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Celia Paul painting
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Painting the Wind

Jun. 19, 2019

How Celia Paul's art resonates with that of the Brontë sistersBeautifully installed on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery, the "Celia Paul" exhibition invokes works by some of the 19th-century painters in The Huntington's permanent collection 

Two people stand together in front of a wall of framed artwork.
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The Huntington’s Foundations and Futures

Mar. 12, 2024

To celebrate this year’s Founders’ Day, Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, engaged in a wide-ranging conversation with Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence about the past, present, and future of The Huntington.

Black-and-white photo of a tree on the top of a rocky cliff.
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A Book Older than God: The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine

Mar. 26, 2024

The rings of bristlecone pines, the planet’s longest-living trees, chronicle past details about changes in the climate and other environmental variations of global significance. The Huntington’s Daniel Lewis explores this topic and more in his book “Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future.”

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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Something Old, Something New

May 25, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend marks the beginning of an exodus of researchers who have spent the full academic year mining the collections in the Library. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, the 2010–11 Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow

Society of Fellows

The Society of Fellows enjoy fellowship, enrichment, and philanthropy through annual giving, and receive exclusive privileges and opportunities to engage with curators of the library, art, and botanical collections.

botanical drawing of aloe africana gasteria
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A Gasteria by Any Other Name

Aug. 16, 2022

Gasteria species were included in the genus Aloe until 1809, when French physician and botanist Henri August Duval proposed they be moved into the new genus Gasteria, named for the slightly bulbous, stomach-like shape of the flowers.

Volunteer at plant sale
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"Eye Candy" for Plant Lovers

Apr. 24, 2012

Preparations are in high gear for the 38th Annual Spring Plant Sale, which takes place on Sunday, April 29, with a preview sale for Members on Sunday, April 28. Staff and volunteers have been busy for weeks, unloading deliveries, inventorying, sorting, labeling

Mario Einaudi at a metadata entry screen
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The Elves and the HDLmaker

Jun. 15, 2012

The current exhibition "Visions of Empire: The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840–1880" tells the story of the extraordinary achievement and implications of the first transcontinental railroad.

Harmony Holiday

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Violinist Cho-Liang Lin
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Press Release - Violinist Cho-Liang Lin Named 2015 Artist-in-Residence at The Huntington

Feb. 17, 2015

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has named internationally acclaimed violinist Cho-Liang Lin as its artist-in-residence for 2015. The musical residency is presented under the auspices of the Cheng Family Visiting Artist Program

Portrait of the See Family, including Fong See (third from left) and Letticie “Ticie” Pruett (second from right) and their five children, 1914. Unknown photographer. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Papers of the Chinese American Family Featured in the Book “On Gold Mountain” by Lisa See

May 13, 2020

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of Gilbert, Florence, and Leslee See Leong, members of two of the earliest and most prominent Chinese American families in Los Angeles

ancient scroll being unfurled
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Mysterious Manuscript in a Silk Purse

Oct. 21, 2015

An intimate glimpse at a Medieval poem put to a surprising useAs a graduate student doing research in the library at The Huntington in the summer of 2002, I examined a manuscript that surprised me so much

Collage of Verso highlights from 2019.
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2019 Verso Retrospective

Dec. 23, 2019

On Aug. 30, 1919, Henry and Arabella Huntington signed the trust agreement that established The Huntington

Photo of Charmian London on horseback on Molokai in 1907
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Finding Molokai

Jan. 30, 2017

At daybreak on a steamy morning last August, my husband dropped me off at the Kalaupapa trailhead on the north shore of Molokai and waved goodbye.

Available Fellowships

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Monument to the 533-147th Pennsylvania Infantry at Little Round Top, site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederates on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. This photo is from a book published by the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission.
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A Usable Past

Nov. 19, 2013

In his address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln evoked the memory of 1776. Few, if any, in the audience had been alive at the time of the American Revolution, but Lincoln knew the power of that Glorious Cause

Detail of the lower portion of The Nativity, by Edward Coley Burne-Jones
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A Designing Pre-Raphaelite

Feb. 21, 2018

Before I saw The Nativity by Edward Burne-Jones, I asked myself if The Huntington really needed another design for a piece of 19th-century decorative art? We already had more than 1,000 drawings for wallpapers, carpets

Toshi Reagon. Photo by Desdemona Burgin.
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Amplifying Black History

Feb. 19, 2021

The year 2020 was like no other, from the devastation wrought by COVID-19 to the political turmoil and nationwide protests against systemic racism and injustice that erupted after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.

Lady harvesting oranges
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Harvesting an Orchard to Feed the Hungry

Jun. 12, 2019

Have you ever wondered what happens to the ripe, luscious oranges you see growing in The Huntington's orchards? They help feed people in need.

Origami owl
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Folded Wonders

Jan. 5, 2017

What happens when you take a single sheet of paper and apply the ancient principles of origami coupled with computer-generated folding patterns? In the hands of physicist and origami master Robert J. Lang

Books
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The Library Tomorrow

Aug. 26, 2014

The next time you walk into the Library's main exhibition hall to see "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times," be sure to stop into "The Library Today" gallery. Several remarkable videos will vie for your attention

Exhibition label in the Huntington Art Gallery
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Open to Interpretation

Mar. 17, 2015

One of the first things visitors encounter in the mansion that houses the Huntington Art Gallery is a series of first-floor period rooms that Henry and Arabella Huntington inhabited in the early decades of the 20th century.

Group of civil war scholars
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CONFERENCES | The Civil War Lives

Oct. 25, 2011

In her introductory remarks at the conference "Civil War Lives" this past weekend, co-convener Joan Waugh explained the objective of the presenters: "This conference showcases the importance of individuals—men and women, white and black, soldiers and politicians, unionists and confederates. We want to get at the big issues of the Civil War through these lives

Renovation Fact Sheet - Countdown Begins for the Reopening of The Huntington’s Historic Tea Room

… Center Offenhauser and Associates 200004 There have been five additions to the original Library building including the …