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1 Quick Facts and Figures about The Huntington 2017–18

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A Collections-Based Research and Educational Institution 2 Henry and 3 The Five Program Areas 4 Architecture at a Glance 12 Financial Highlights 14 Institutional Governance 15 Key Contacts 18 A Collections-Based Research and Educational Institution

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based research and educational institution serving scholars and the general public.

Each year, The Huntington:

• Provides 1,700 scholars with access to a world-class collection of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, paintings, prints, sculpture, and decorative arts; • Awards $1.85 million in fellowships (through a peer-review process) to scholars for advanced humanities research; • Educates thousands of schoolchildren and their teachers in art, history, literature, and botanical science through special tours Henry and Arabella Huntington and programs; • Organizes special exhibitions to enhance the visitor experience, Railroad and real estate businessman Henry Edwards Huntington interpret the collections, and facilitate learning; and was born on Feb. 27, 1850, in Oneonta, N.Y. Henry and his uncle, Collis P. Huntington, were leaders in building the railroads that • Hosts more than 750,000 visitors. span the country. In 1892, Henry moved to to represent Huntington interests on the Pacific Coast. And in 1902 The Huntington has a membership totaling more than 40,000 (two years after the death of Collis), Huntington transferred his households, an active volunteer corps of some 1,500, and a headquarters to and started to connect, consolidate, full- and part-time staff of more than 400. It is an independent and extend the electric railway system in nonprofit organization, supported by gifts and grants from (the “Red Cars”). He had large landholdings in Southern California individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies and numerous business interests. In 1903, he bought the San and by a private endowment. Marino (now The Huntington). He married Arabella Duval Huntington, the widow of Collis, in 1913. Together, they amassed extensive library, art, and botanical collections that continue to evolve. Henry died in 1927; Arabella predeceased him by three years.

2 3 The Five Program Areas Library

The Huntington Library is one of the world’s great independent research libraries in the fields of British and American history, literature, art, and the history of science, stretching from the 11th century to the present. Among the collections:

7 million manuscripts • First editions and manuscripts by authors such as , , , Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David 430,000 rare books Thoreau, , and William Wordsworth, and the literary 275,000 reference books archives of , Octavia Butler, and Hilary Mantel. • Rare books and manuscripts on the history of science, medicine, 875,000 prints and ephemera and technology. With the 2006 acquisition of the Burndy Library 774,000 photographs (a collection of nearly 60,000 items), The Huntington has become among the top institutions in the world for the study of the history of science and technology. highlights The Library Main Exhibition Hall showcases some of the most • Unparalleled materials related to the history of the American outstanding rare books and manuscripts in the collection. About West, constituting nearly 40 percent of the Library’s holdings. 150 rare objects are grouped thematically around 12 key works, • The Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales prompting visitors to consider each item in a wider context. (ca. 1400–1405). The Dibner Hall of the History of Science is a permanent • One of 12 vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible known to exhibition focusing on astronomy, natural history, medicine, exist (ca. 1455) and one of the most extensive collections of and light. 15th-century printed books in the . • Quarto and folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays, some of which The West Hall of the Library presents temporary exhibitions. were printed during the writer’s lifetime. • Letters and manuscripts by , Thomas The 90,000-square-foot Munger Research Center provides Jefferson, , and , including storage capacity for further collections development, work space the original manuscript of Franklin’s autobiography. for scholars and staff, and facilities for conservation, preservation, exhibition preparation, digital imaging, and photography. 4 5 Art

The Huntington’s art collections focus on European art from the 15th to the early 20th century and American art from the late 17th to the late 20th century. The holdings continue to grow by gift and purchase.

The European collections are displayed in the Huntington Art Gallery, the original Huntington residence. American art is on view in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. • Renaissance and Mannerist bronze statuettes, including Smaller, focused exhibitions are presented in the Works on Paper Giambologna’s Nessus and Deianira. Room in the Huntington Art Gallery and in the Susan and • The European art collections include about 420 paintings, Stephen Chandler Wing of the Scott Galleries. 370 works of sculpture, more than 2,500 decorative art objects, and 20,000 prints and drawings. european art highlights

• One of the most distinguished collections of late 18th- and early american art highlights 19th-century British paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts out- side the United Kingdom, including Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue • Begun in 1979 with a major gift from the Virginia Steele Scott Boy; Sir ’ as the Tragic Muse; John Foundation, the American art holdings number about 270 Constable’s View on the Stour near Dedham; J. M. W. Turner’s paintings, 80 works of sculpture, 1,000 decorative art objects, The Grand Canal, Venice; and major holdings of design materials 9,500 prints and drawings, and 1,800 photographs. relating to . • Masterpieces in the paintings collection include Frederic Edwin • The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection, Church’s monumental Chimborazo, ’s intimate which contains Italian and northern European renaissance Breakfast in Bed, ’s evocative sailing scene, paintings, including Rogier van der Weyden’s Virgin and Child, The Long Leg, and ’s Small Crushed Campbell’s and sculpture, along with a spectacular collection of 18th-century Soup Can (Beef Noodle). French sculpture, tapestries, porcelain, and furniture. • The Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing contains 18th- and 19th- • 18th-century continental European art, particularly French century paintings, furniture, and works of decorative art, offering paintings, including works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Antoine visitors insights into the history of American art practice. Watteau; and sculpture, including important works by Clodion • An important part of the permanent installation is a gallery and Jean-Antoine Houdon. devoted to the work of early 20th-century Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene. 6 7 Botanical Gardens

Encompassing approximately 120 acres of the 207-acre grounds, the botanical gardens contain more than a dozen principal areas.

highlights

• Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園, the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, reflecting the traditional style of scholar gardens in , China, and featuring a 1.5-acre lake, a complex of pavilions, a teahouse and tea shop, stone bridges, and waterfalls set against a wooded backdrop of mature oaks and pines. • The , with a traditional Japanese house, a , a walled Zen garden, and bonsai courts, and Seifu-an, a ceremonial teahouse and garden. • The Garden, one of the largest outdoor collections of mature cacti and succulents in the world. • The Frances and Sidney Brody California Garden in the for children and families, and showcasing orchids and other Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center. Arranged along tropical collections. a central allée of olive trees, the garden includes native and adaptive - Adjacent laboratories offering opportunities for botanical plantings set among hedge rooms in a nod toward more formal research. biologists are testing ways to safely freeze aloe landscape design. tissue as a conservation method. Genetic research on cycads • The Frances Lasker Brody Botanical Center, featuring: is revealing much about the plant’s evolutionary history. - The Helen and Peter Bing Children’s Garden, introducing - The Ranch Garden, testing and demonstrating contemporary youngsters to the wonders of the natural world through ideas for sustainable urban . interactive sculptural elements. • Additional garden areas devoted to and camellias, each - The Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical collection with more than 1,400 different . The camellia Science and the Associated Foundations Teaching , collection is considered one of the most comprehensive in the world. providing hands-on botanical science opportunities • The Australian, Herb, Jungle, Lily Ponds, Palm, and Subtropical gardens are among other important botanical attractions. 8 9 Research Education

Each year, some 1,700 scholars come from around the world The Huntington’s education programs interpret the collections to conduct advanced humanities research using The Huntington’s and promote lifelong learning to a broad audience. collections. Through a rigorous peer-review program, the institution awards approximately 200 grants to scholars in the • Each year, school programs introduce the collections to more fields of history, literature, art history, and the history of science than 15,000 schoolchildren from around Southern California and medicine. Scholarship carried out in our reading rooms results through tours led by volunteer education facilitators. in best-selling books, Pulitzer Prizes, acclaimed documentary films, • Scores of teachers participate in professional development activities and many of the history and social studies textbooks that educate featuring scholarly lectures and curriculum development. the nation’s schoolchildren. Research activities at The Huntington include academic conferences, workshops, symposia, and lectures. • The Huntington partners with schools and school districts to provide deep, long-term engagement with students and teachers Through a partnership with the University of Southern California, through school visits and professional development for teachers. The Huntington has established two research centers: the Education staff use inquiry-based techniques and then help USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute supports educators implement these techniques in their own teaching. advanced research and scholarship on human societies between • More than 15,000 households participate each year in public 1450 and 1850; the Huntington-USC Institute on California and programs, including classes, workshops, performances, lectures, the West brings together historians and other scholars, students, and our annual summer program for children, Huntington Explorers. writers, journalists, and policymakers to investigate and debate • The Huntington collaborates regularly with Boys and Girls Club, the rich and the American West. YWCA, and other community organizations serving young people.

10 11 Architecture at a Glance

The Huntington is also known for its architecture.

• The Huntington Art Gallery, originally Henry and Arabella’s home, was designed by and . It was constructed from 1909 to 1911 and comprises 55,000 square feet. A 2008 renovation and adaptive reuse was led by Earl Corp. and Architectural Resources Group. • The Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art comprises the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery (1984), designed by Paul Gray, and the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery (2005), designed by Frederick Fisher, a space totaling 39,100 square feet. A new addition, also designed by Fisher, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing, opened in 2016 adding 8,600 square feet. • The MaryLou and George Boone Gallery was designed by Hunt and Grey as the Huntingtons’ garage and built in 1911. The 8,000-square-foot structure was converted to gallery space in 1999 by architect Brenda Levin. • The original 96,000-square-foot Library building was also designed by Hunt and Grey and built in 1919; it has five subsequent additions, including the 90,000-square-foot Munger Research Center (2004), designed by Earl Corp. Conservatory for Botanical Science (18,000 square feet; 2003), • The Huntington Mausoleum is the burial place of Henry and and the Helen and Peter Bing Children’s Garden (1⁄3 acre; 2004). Arabella. It was designed by (responsible for the • The 6.5-acre Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.), with sculpture by John (2015), comprises 94,000 feet of new interior space. The complex Gregory, and completed in 1929. encompasses 52,000 square feet above ground of classrooms, an • The Frances Lasker Brody Botanical Center was designed by auditorium, a multi-purpose room, café, coffee shop, gift shop, Offenhauser and Associates and includes a maintenance complex boardroom, and orientation gallery. It also includes 42,000 square (15,000 square feet; built in 2000); the research and education feet of underground storage space. The complex was designed by facility (45,000 square feet; 2001); The Rose Hills Foundation Architectural Resources Group; landscape architect was the Office of Cheryl Barton. 12 13 Financial Highlights Institutional Governance

president and senior staff Beginning in 1927 with Henry Huntington’s gift of the estate, its collections, and an endowment of $8.5 million, The Huntington Steve Hindle has received generous private support, helping to fund operations Interim President and W. M. Keck Foundation Director and build the endowment to its present market value of $455 of Research million (as of June 30, 2017). Sandra L. Brooke (as of Jan. 2, 2018) Avery Director of the Library The Huntington is committed to careful stewardship of its phys- ical resources and financial assets, as well as of its staff, members Larry J. Burik and donors, and multiple audiences. The total budget for fiscal Vice President of Facilities year 2017-18 is $49.8 million before capital expenditures. James P. Folsom Marge and Sherm Telleen/Marion and Earle Jorgensen The chart below shows the key sources of revenue for the fiscal Director of the Botanical Gardens year 2017-18. The Huntington uses a 5% spend rate on the endowment to generate 43% of the budgeted income. Donors Catherine Hess and membership contribute to fund 34% of the annual budget. Interim Director of the Art Collections Earned revenues are generated by admissions, the Huntington Mitchell Morris Store, food services, and a variety of other income generating Chief Information Officer activities to support 23% of the budget. Coreen A. Rodgers Chief Financial Officer and Anne and Jim Rothenberg sources of fiscal year 2017–18 budget spending Vice President for Financial Affairs Randy Shulman Vice President for Advancement contributions endowment income 23% Susan Turner-Lowe Vice President for Communications and Marketing 43% David S. Zeidberg (through Dec. 31, 2017) Avery Director of the Library 34% earned revenues

14 15 trustees Olin Barrett John R. Light Anne L. Crotty Anne F. Rothenberg, chair Christine W. Bender Ethan Lipsig Suzanne Crowell Nancy M. Berman Francis D. Logan Brent Dibner Andrew F. Barth Helen L. Bing Mona Mapel Robert N. Essick Greg Pieschala William H. Borthwick Kenneth S. McCormick Eunice E. Goodan Loren R. Rothschild Robert M. Breech Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Boyd Hight Geneva H. Thornton Titus Brenninkmeijer Lary J. Mielke Louise Jones Joan Caillouette O’Malley M. Miller Peter D. Kaufman trustees emeriti Grant L. Cambridge J. Mario Molina, M.D. Jennie Kiang Susan Chandler Toshie Mosher Ronald L. Olson Peter K. Barker C. Joseph Chang George E. Moss Kay S. Onderdonk MaryLou Boone Jennifer Cheng Wendy Munger Margaret C. Richards Paul G. Haaga Bruce Coffey Susan Robertson Therese Stanfill Philip M. Hawley Don R. Conlan Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H. Richard J. Stegemeier Peter W. Mullin Bonnie Cook Stephen E. Rogers David T. Traitel Ruth B. Shannon Joseph H. Coulombe Anne Brody Rubin Robert S. Warren Stewart R. Smith Judith Danner R. Carlton Seaver Sally K. Wenzlau Robert E. Wycoff Kelvin L. Davis Carole Shammas J. Patrick Whaley Mark Dibner Allen E. Shay Kwang-I Yu The Trustees are joined Roger Engemann Judy Yin Shih Paul Zee by a Board of Overseers who, Judith Farrar Timothy J. Sloan along with the President and Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D. Janet Stanford Senior Staff, provide policy Margaret R. Galbraith Philip A. Swan and management oversight Bernadette Glenn Linda Davis Taylor for the institution. Maria O. Grant L. Sherman Telleen Stuart R. Hemphill Leslie A. Waite overseers Karen Hoffman Alyce de Roulet Williamson Christine C. Benter, chair Barbara B. House Blaine Fetter, vice chair Claudia Huntington overseers emeriti Scott Jordan Dorrie Braun Ashwin Adarkar Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Susan Brody Gwen Babcock Russel I. Kully John E. Bryson Sandra M. Bane Jay T. Last Nancy B. Call Merle H. Banta Simon K. C. Li 16 17 Key Contacts notes

Area Code: 626

General Information 405-2100 Advancement 405-2290 Art 405-2225 Botanical 405-3505 Communications 405-2269 Education 405-3463 Financial Affairs 405-2156 Foundation, Corporate, and Government Relations 405-3484 Library 405-2244 Membership 405-2124 Facilities 405-3549 President’s Office 405-2114 Reception 405-2125 Research 405-2194 Security 405-2250 Store 405-2142 Tea Room 683-8131 Tech and Info Services 405-3413

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