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Clara Huntington’s Lasting Tribute to Her Father
Posted on May. 27, 2020 by Suzanne Oatey
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She was the eldest of three daughters from Henry E. Huntington's first marriage and shared her father's appreciation for art, books, and the beauty of California ...
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Some of Our Favorite Things
Dec. 26, 2016 by Kevin Durkin
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As 2016 winds to a close, we invite you to take another look at a dozen stories plucked from the more than 80 we’ve published this past year on Verso We start off with a meditation on the symbolism...
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Recent Lectures: Nov. 22–Dec. 13, 2016
Dec. 22, 2016
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Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections...
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Finding Harmony in Battle
Dec. 19, 2016 by Vanessa Wilkie
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I wrote my first serious history paper in 7th grade on the Battle of Hastings—the epic scene in 1066 when Duke William II of Normandy invaded England defeating the Saxon King Harold. After the battle...
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Preserving Parks for People
Dec. 14, 2016 by Linda Chiavaroli
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“Geographies of Wonder: Evolution of the National Park Idea, 1933–2016,” an exhibition...
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Ben Jonson’s Readers
Dec. 7, 2016 by Jane Rickard
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The poet and playwright Ben Jonson (1572–1637) was exceptionally concerned with literary posterity. His most ambitious publication was the folio collection of his Works that appeared 400 years ago this...
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Viewing Sam Francis in Another Light
Nov. 30, 2016 by Nicole Block
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I grew up in Southern California and have loved The Huntington since I first visited it on a high school field trip Being an intern this past summer in the American art department was a dream come true...
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The Beard Makes the Man
Nov. 22, 2016 by James Fishburne
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Is identity mutable? Can you alter who you are? Whether or not real transformation is achievable, it is possible to change how others view you. A new exhibition in the Huntington Art Gallery examines...
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The Brave New (and Old) World of Data
Nov. 17, 2016 by Theodore Porter
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Data, made up of units so uniform as to be, almost by necessity, boring, unite to form collectives of information in a data-driven world that is recognized now as exciting, sexy, and consummately modern...
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Hearing NASA’s Earth Science Satellites
Nov. 15, 2016 by Diana W. Thompson
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As visual strategists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Dan Goods and David Delgado use art and design to explain science. Their newest...
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Recent Lectures: Oct. 24–Nov. 9, 2016
Nov. 11, 2016
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Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections...
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The Huntington’s Arcadia
Nov. 8, 2016 by Linda Chiavaroli
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Recently, the director and some of the cast from a current production of Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia stopped by The Huntington...
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Susan B. Anthony and the Price of Suffrage
Nov. 3, 2016 by Olga Tsapina
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The sight of an old account ledger doesn’t generally excite many people—aside from historians and forensic accountants. But a ledger that once belonged to the famous American feminist and social...
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A Raven Named Sir Nevermore?
Oct. 31, 2016 by Daniel Immerwahr
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I remember the moment when I fell in love with the Huntington Library. I was researching 19th-century agriculture and, in particular, the use of guano—the droppings of cormorants, boobies, and pelicans...
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Breathing New Life into Trees
Oct. 26, 2016 by Diana W. Thompson
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Huntington arborist Daniel Goyette first investigated the two-story-high coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) near the Boone...
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Becoming America
Oct. 18, 2016 by Kevin Durkin
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An astonishingly rich installation of early American art provides a pre-Thanksgiving visual feast for Huntington visitors, beginning Oct. 22. That’s opening day for the new Jonathan and Karin Fielding...
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Early Modern Literary Geographies
Oct. 13, 2016 by Julie Sanders
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One of the gems in The Huntington’s library collection is a 16th-century image titled “View from Wotton Underwood.” Although officially cataloged as a “map,” it’s quite different from what...
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