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TELEPHONE: 626-405-2100 WEBSITE: huntington.org ADMISSION: Members: Free. Non-Members adult rates: Weekdays $23. Weekends $25. Geographies of Wonder (See website for dis counted senior, group, and children’s rates.) Admission is free to all Two new Huntington exhibitions mark the centennial of the National Park Service visitors on the first Thursday of each month with advance tickets. n a wide-ranging examination of the role of the HOURS: Mon., Wed., Thurs., and Fri.: noon– national parks in American life, The Huntington 4:30 p.m. Sat. and Sun.: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. Monday holidays: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. INational Park Service with a pair of exhibitions SUMMER HOURS: (June–August) ive Dad a day to remember on Father’s Day weekend by enjoy - that run consecutively from May through next 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. daily, excluding Tues - days. Closed Tuesdays and major holidays. ing an afternoon at The Huntington. To help you celebrate, February in the West Hall of the Library. we’ll be featuring craft beer pairings from Stone Brewing DINING: The Café serves light meals and “The national parks are our nation’s crown refreshments. Tea is served in the Rose GCompany with our new grill menu, served in the patio dining jewels,” said Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Garden Tea Room. For tea reservations, area adjacent to the Rose Garden Tea Room. Each dad who dines Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manu - call 626-683-8131. Enjoy Chinese cuisine in at the Patio Grill will be entered automatically in a prize drawing scripts at The Huntington and exhibition curator. the Garden of Flowing Fragrance and specialty for a chance to win a Weber barbeque smoker. These special “The centennial of this remarkable system of public coffees and gelato in the Coffee Shop. offerings will be available on both Saturday and Sunday, June 18 lands gives us a perfect opportunity to reflect a little HUNTINGTON STORE: Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. more deeply, and to explore the dynamic interplay Wednesday through Monday, the store carries and 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. No reservations required. a variety of books, prints, note cards, jewelry, between these great American landscapes and the home decor, toys, and gift items related to The And don’t forget Mom! For Mother’s Day brunch details and people who seek to define them.” Hunt ington’s collec tions. Pur chases help availability, visit huntington.org/mothersday. The first exhibition, “Geographies of Won - finance the institu tion. Store information: der: Origin Stories of America’s National Parks, 626-405-2142. 1872‒1933,” opens May 14 and continues through Lisa Blackburn, Editor/Photographer Sept. 3. It features some 100 items, drawn from The Avelina E. Moeller, Designer Huntington’s collec tions. Among the treasures on Thea M. Page, Contributing writer display will be a mammoth 1873 photo album by Senior Staff On the cover: “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,” Thomas Moran’s one of the premier photographers of the day, chromolithographic reproduction of a watercolor sketch, as published in William Henry Jackson, opened to a photo of Laura Skandera Trombley Ferdinand V. Hayden’s illustrated volume The Yellowstone National Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon. Jackson’s photo - Early photograph of Yellowstone National Park’s President Park, and the mountain regions of portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado graphs played an important role in convincing and Utah, 1876. Back cover: ‘Jump for Joy’ roses doing exactly that in Grand Canyon from an 1873 album by William Congress in 1872 to establish Yellow stone National Catherine Allgor the Rose Garden, along with some 1,200 other fragrant varieties. Henry Jackson. Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Park, the first landscape to be so designated by the Director of Education Follow us! federal government. National Parks (on display in the exhibition) James P. Folsom Find links to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, First-hand accounts from travelers provide a established a conservation agenda. The exhibi - Tumblr, YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes, and Marge and Sherm Telleen / Marion and Earle fascinating glimpse at the rigors of early wilderness tion also looks at scientific study of the parks by Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens the Verso blog at huntington.org. tourism. A letter from 1861 describes a group’s geo logists, hydrographers, biologists, and Steve Hindle brutally difficult trip through Yosemite Valley by ethno graphers; at tourism promotion by the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research horse and wagon. The jarring terrain left the wo men railroads and entrepreneurial tour operators; Margaret Irwin exhibitions of the party bruised and battered by their rigid and at efforts to establish a centralized system of Chief of Staff hoopskirts. Even so, people were eager to make their JUNE • 2016
“Geographies of Wonder: Origin Stories of park manage ment, which led Congress to create | Mitchell Morris America’s National Parks, 1872–1933” way there to see this “wonder of wonders.” the National Park Service in 1916. Chief Information Officer Opens May 14 | Library West Hall The exhibition also examines the treatment of The 1920s were a boom period for Coreen A. Rodgers Native Americans in the parks during this period, visitors; leaner years followed with the Great “Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Bilingual Photography and Anne and Jim Rothenberg Vice President both by the government and by promoters. Depression. Then President Franklin D. for Financial Affairs the Architecture of Greene & Greene” “Indigenous people were ousted and resettled outside Roosevelt launched his New Deal program, Opens June 18 | Scott Galleries, Chandler Wing Kevin Salatino of park boundaries, and yet their historical presence which included an ambitious plan to expand the Hannah and Russel Kully Director “The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism was used as a prominent advertisement to entice parks. That growth period will be examined in of the Art Collections CALENDAR • MAY and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920” people to visit,” said Blodgett. the second exhibition, “Geographies of Won - Randy Shulman Ends May 9 | Boone Gallery As interest in visiting the parks grew, so did der: Evolution of the National Park Idea, 1933– 1 Vice President for Advancement interest in exploiting their natural resources. A call “Alex Israel at The Huntington” 2016,” which opens in October. Susan Turner-Lowe for conservation emerged, led by the renowned Through July 11 | Huntington Art Gallery Read more about “Geographies of Vice President for Communications naturalist John Muir, whose 1901 volume, Our and Marketing Wonder” at huntington.org. “Spirit Boys: Putti and Infant Gods on Paper” David S. Zeidberg Through July 25 | Huntington Art Gallery, Works on Paper Room Avery Director of the Library American Art Expansion Mitchell Morris Joins Staff as Chief Information Officer Reinstalled spaces will open in June; the new Fielding Wing opens in October itchell Morris, a seasoned goals. Before pursuing a career technology executive with in information tech nology, ans of American art at The 18 years experience in Morris was a research bio logist Huntington can look for ward Mboth for-profit and with a specialization in botani - to some exciting develop ments nonprofit settings, has joined the cal and environmental science. Fin the next few months, Huntington staff as chief Technology at The starting with the reopen ing this information officer. He is the Hunt ington underpins the summer of several rooms in the first to hold the position. institution’s work in myriad Virginia Steele Scott Galleries and Morris comes to The ways: from the computers that culminating with the debut of the Huntington after serving as the monitor irrigation in the new Jonathan and Karin Fielding vice president for infor mation botanical gardens, to the system Wing in the fall. tech nology at the International that manages the research On June 18, rooms in the Association of Plumb ing and library’s vast online catalog of original portion of the Scott Mechanical Officials, the non - collections, to the iPads up- Galleries that have been closed for Rendering of the exterior of The Hunting - profit organization that develops loaded with information about several months will reopen with a ton’s latest expansion of the Virginia and publishes plumb ing and mechanical codes, art objects that help amplify the visitor’s experience Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, the provides educational tools, and conducts product in the Huntington Art Gallery. new installation and a refreshed Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing, set to look and feel. The reconfigured open in October. irst opened in 1984 with testing and certifica tion to help protect public “As we continue to evolve and expand our programs and broaden our reach, having Mitch help space features a room highlighting 6,800 square feet of health on matters having to do with water and Fgallery space, the Virginia wastewater manage ment. While there, he led his IT lead us solidly into the technology future will be works from the Gail-Oxford Collection, a recent bequest of 18th-century team through a substantial growth period for the key,” said Huntington President Laura Trom bley. works of American decorative art; a redesigned Dorothy Collis Brown Steele Scott Galleries of organization, necessitating a deep under standing of “We are excited to have Mitch on board and thrilled Wing displaying works by Arts and Crafts architects Charles and Henry American Art were expanded the organiza tion’s mission and goals and the degree to begin this new chapter at The Huntington.” Greene; plus long, sweep ing sightlines across galleries and improved to 16,300 square feet in 2005 to which technology could be used to support those visitor flow. Also opening June 18 is a focused loan exhibition in the with the addition of the Lois Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing, “Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Bilingual and Robert F. Erburu Gallery Photography and the Architecture of Greene & Greene.” (See related and then completely rein - story on page 11.) stalled in 2009 to cover the Then, on Oct. 22, a new 8,600-square-foot addition to the Scott history of art in the United Call the Midwife Galleries makes its debut. Named after the lead donors to the $10.3 mil - States from the colonial he Huntington has acquired one of the world’s most compre hensive lion building project, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing includes period to the mid-20th 5,000 square feet of gallery space with an inaugural exhibition of more collections on the history of human reproduction. The Lawrence D. century. In July of 2014, The Tand Betty Jeanne Longo Collection on Reprodu ctive Biology is than 200 works from the Fieldings’ esteemed collection of 18th- and Huntington expanded the composed of some 2,700 rare books, 3,000 pamphlets and journal early 19th-century American art works. Some of the objects are promised display of American art articles, a dozen manuscripts, and a major trove of reference works— gifts to The Huntington. further by opening more materials that trace dramatic shifts in knowledge about women’s Designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, the new Fielding than 5,000 feet of gallery health and healthcare from the late 15th to the 20th century. The JUNE • 2016 JUNE • 2016
Wing features eight new rooms for art display as well as a stately glass | | space focusing on works of collection was a gift from Lawrence Longo (1926–2016), a respected entrance and lobby on the south side of California developmental physiology specialist who amassed the 20th- century art in an area the building, mirroring those on the collection over a period of 60 years. previously used for storage. north side. “The Longo Collection elevates The Huntington to one of the Read more about the American art With this latest expansion of nation’s foremost institutions for researching the history of medicine, expansion at huntington.org, search the gallery—the addition of and, specifically, the history of obstetrics and gynecology,” said words “Fielding Wing.” the Jonathan and Karin Melissa Lo, Dibner Assistant Curator of Science and Technology at CALENDAR • MAY CALENDAR • MAY Fielding Wing—The Hunting - The Huntington. “Dr. Longo’s keen eye has resulted in an incredibly ton will be the home of one rich array of material.” 2 An extremely rare first edition of the first of the largest displays of This gift sub stantially augments The Huntington’s ever-growing manual for midwives, Der Swangern 3 hold ings in the history of medicine—a field that is of considerable Frauwen und Hebammen Rosegarten Artist Unknown, Early Portrait of a Woman historic American art in the (“The Rose garden for Pregnant Women with a Bowl of Cherries, ca. 1770–1780. interest to researchers around the world. western United States. and Mid wives”), published in 1513 by Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. Read more about the acquisition at huntington.org, search Eucharius Rösselin. words “Longo Collection.” M A Y – J U N E 2016 EVENTS
Members Events Mother’s Day at The Huntington Chamber Music Concert culture with particular reference to political Ranch Open Houses May 7 & 8 (Saturday & Sunday) Camerata Pacifica communication. Experts in the field will May 28 & June 25 (Saturdays) For details about Mother’s Day brunch May 17 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. survey how connections were forged 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. CONTRIBUTOR LEVEL MEMBERS and other offerings, visit The ensemble wraps up its 2016 season at between politics in London and politics Self-tour The Huntington’s urban agriculture huntington.org/ MothersDay. The Huntington with a program that includes in the localities. $25. Registration: site and take home some fresh ideas for AND ABOVE [email protected]. Japanese Teahouse Tours Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, Op. sustainable gardening. General admission. Members’ Summer Evenings 11; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de or 626-405-3432. Rothenberg Hall (Cancelled in the event of rain.) Ranch Garden May 9 & June 13 (Mondays) noon–4 p.m. June 26 (Sunday) 5:30–8 p.m. Florence, Op. 70; and Sir Edward Elgar’s Learn the traditions behind the Japanese East Asian Garden Lecture Series and July 9, 30 & August 13 (Saturdays) Quintet in A Minor for Piano & Strings, Op. 84. An Evening Among the Roses Garden’s ceremonial teahouse. Informal tours Japanese Gardens of Manzanar: Join us for four delightful summer Carnegie Observatories Lecture Series $56. Tickets: cameratapacifica.org or June 3 (Friday) 6:30–9:30 p.m. are offered at 20-minute intervals on the Past, Present, and Future evenings for Upper Level Members. Exoplanets 800-884-8410. Rothenberg Hall r (Details on page 12.) May 2 (Monday) 7 p.m. second Monday of every month. No reserva - May 24 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. Explore the gardens after hours, listen to Second Thursday Garden Talk & Sale Astronomer Kevin Schlaufman, Carnegie- tions required. General admission. Tropical Nursery Tour During World War II, the internment camp at live music, bring a picnic to enjoy on the Landscaping and Microclimates Princeton Fellow at the Observatories of the May 18 (Wednesday) 1:30–3 p.m. Manzanar in the California desert held more lawn, or dine in the Café. (See page 13 for Second Thursday Garden Talk & Sale Carnegie Institution for Science, tells the Go behind the scenes with Dylan Hannon, than 10,000 men, women, and children of for Small Gardens details.) Rainwater Harvesting Japanese ancestry. To ameliorate the harsh June 9 (Thursday) 2:30 p.m. story of exoplanets—planets outside of our May 12 (Thursday) 2:30 p.m. The Huntington’s curator of tropical collec - conditions, many of those imprisoned there Cactus and succulent expert Gary Duke will solar system. The evening’s program begins Don’t let your garden’s most precious tions, for a tour of the botanical nurseries built Japanese gardens. Jeffery Burton, give an illustrated talk about how to develop SUPPORTING, PATRON, AND at 7 p.m. with a musical performance by resource wash down the storm drain. Learn where rare orchids and other plants are archaeologist at the Manzanar National a landscape plan for small gardens. He’ll students from the Colburn School, followed how to capture rainwater for reuse. Garden grown. $5*. Advance reservations required. BENEFACTOR LEVEL MEMBERS Historic Site, examines the traces of these discuss sun angles, focal points, and creating at 7:30 p.m. by the lecture. Free; advance designer Marilee Kuhlmann discusses a Registration: huntington.org/calendar. *For Premier Discovery Program gardens, which were lost and abandoned microclimates for plants with special needs, reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r variety of water collection methods and non-Members, Hunting ton admission is a Geographies of Wonder when the site was closed. Free; no reserva- as well as how to plan ahead for maintenance This program will be live streamed at systems, from rain barrels to underground separate required cost. May 13 (Friday) 7–9:30 p.m. www.fora.tv. Details at tions required. Rothenberg Hall requirements. A plant sale follows the talk. tanks. A plant sale follows the talk. Free; no Shakespeare at 400: Why? Free; no reservations required. Join Peter Blodgett, The Huntington’s obs.carnegiescience.edu. reservations required. Ahmanson Room, Talk and Book Signing H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of May 18 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. Ahmanson Room Brody Lecture Brody Botanical Center Why does Shakespeare remain so prevalent in Let the Western American Manuscripts, for an East Asian Garden Lecture Series Nancy Goslee Power world culture 400 years after his death? People Rule exhibition overview and informal conver - Southern California Gardener Series Explorations in the History May 3 (Tuesday) 7 p.m. The Secrets to Growing Edibles Shakespearean scholar Paul Edmondson, head May 25 sa tion about “Geographies of Wonder: of the Rose in China Award-winning landscape designer Nancy in Southern California of research at the Shakespeare Birthplace (Wednesday) Origin Stories of America’s National Parks, 7:30 p.m. June 9 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m. Goslee Power will be the guest speaker at May 15 (Sunday) 2 p.m. Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, offers his own 1872–1933.” r Geoffrey Cowan, Guoliang Wang, the author of Old Roses of The Huntington’s annual Brody Lecture. A Kyra Saegusa, coordinator of The Hunting - thoughts on the Bard’s longevity and outlines president of the China, surveys the development of the rose in reception will follow the program. Free; no ton’s Ranch Gar den, will share some of the some of the ways the Trust is mark ing this For questions regarding your Annenberg China, from the Song dynasty (960–1279) to reservations required. Ahmanson Room simple secrets to milestone anniversary year. Free. No Member ship, please call 626-405-2124 Foundation Trust the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and beyond. sustainability reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r or visit huntington.org. Music in the Chinese Garden at Sunnylands, Wang is a professor of horticulture with the that she has Shakespeare’s Othello discusses his book Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Agriculture Wednesdays, 1–3 p.m. learned in her May 19 (Thursday) 7:30–10 p.m. Let the People Rule: and a lecturer at both Nanjing University and Enjoy traditional Chinese music every four years of The Independent Shakespeare Co. returns to Theodore Roosevelt Nanjing Agricultural University. His research Wednesday afternoon in the Garden of research on the The Huntington with its full-length produc - and the Birth of the Presidential Primary. Using has focused particularly on wild roses and Flowing Fragrance. General admission. site. She’ll reveal tion of Othello, the Bard’s tragic tale of love, a trove of newly discovered documents, ancient horticultural varieties. Free; no (Cancelled in the event of rain.) some easy-to- jealousy, racism, and revenge. This sus - Cowan offers a glimpse at the raucous and reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r implement steps Fiber Arts Day often mean-spirited political machinations of that can trans - Great Rosarians of the World Lecture May 7 (Saturday) 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. the 1912 campaign, which changed American the HUNTINGTON STORE form your edible Significant New Discoveries The centuries-old crafts of spinning, weaving, politics forever by creating the system of garden into a and dyeing with natural plant dyes will be primaries by which presidential nominees are in Old Chinese Roses pro ductive, showcased in this program in The Hunting - selected today. A book signing follows the June 11 (Saturday) 2 p.m. water-wise, and ton’s Herb Garden and adjacent Rose Garden. lecture. Free; no reservations required. The 2016 Great Rosarians of the World lecture livable space, full of beneficial insects and Skilled crafts people will demonstrate the Rothenberg Hall r honors Guoliang Wang, the foremost author - healthy plants. General admis sion. tools and techniques for carding and comb - Ahmanson Room, Brody Botanical Center ing fibers such as cotton and linen, spinning Botany Bay Series the fibers into yarn or thread, weaving, and Plant Science for Gardeners
JUNE • 2016 Carnegie Observatories Lecture Series JUNE • 2016 | and Citizen Scientists making natural dyes using herbs and other The Secret Lives of Galaxies | plant materials. General admission. May 16 (Monday) 7 p.m. penseful new adaptation features Evan Smith May 26 & June 23 (Thursdays) Astronomer Katherine Alatalo, Hubble Fellow as Othello, Kalean Ung as Desdemona, and 4:30–5:30 p.m. at the Carnegie Observatories, discusses David Melville as Iago. Members: $35–$40. Join Jim Folsom, the Telleen/Jorgensen what scientists have been able to deduce Non-Members: $45–$50. Registration: Director of the Botanical Gardens, for this about the Hubble sequence of galaxies using huntington.org/calendar. Rothenberg Hall r informative and engaging monthly series on the wonders of the plant world. A discussion- radio, infrared, UV, and optical astronomy. Conference The evening’s program begins at 7 p.m. with style lecture is followed by an opportunity for Connecting Centre and Locality: lab time with microscopes and plant speci -
CALENDAR • MAY a musical performance by students from the Political Communication CALENDAR • MAY Colburn School, followed at 7:30 p.m. by the mens. Attend a single session or participate ity on the ancient roses of China. Wang has lecture. Free; advance reservations required. in England, ca. 1550–1750 every month. Free; no reservations required. 4 been investigating, collecting, identifying, 5 Celebrate Mom Rothenberg Hall r This program will be live May 20–21 (Friday–Saturday) Botanical Auditorium, Brody Botanical Center. and breeding rose species for over 30 years, streamed at www.fora.tv. Details at 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Save on unique Mother’s Day gifts and has carried out more than 10 field obs.carnegiescience.edu. This conference explores the dynamics of with your Members’ discount local, national, and trans-Atlantic political
theHuntingtonStore.org r The Café will be open until 7:15 p.m. before the start of events showing this symbol. Program attendees can enjoy a select variety of dinner options, QUESTIONS? 626-405-2100 desserts, beer, and wine in the dining venue overlooking the gardens, just steps away from Rothenberg Hall. MAY – JUNE 2016 EVENTS (Continued)
investigations throughout China, especially Continuing Education tolerant plants that reflect the local Mediter - Lecture Series Children and Families one accompanying adult. Members: $25. in the remote mountain areas of Yunnan and ranean climate as well as the history of the American Art in the 19th Century Non-Members: $35. Registration: Sichuan provinces. In this illustrated lecture, Book Discussion property. Scott Kleinrock, The Huntington’s June 15, 22 & 29 (Wednesdays) Children’s Workshop huntington.org/calendar. Wang reveals his most treasured finds among Destiny of the Republic landscape design and planning coordinator, 10 a.m.–noon All About Roses China’s heritage roses. The ticket price of $25 Children’s Workshop May 4 (Wednesday) 10 a.m.–noon leads a private tour of the garden that is be - Join historian Roy Ritchie, senior research May 7 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–noon includes an evening reception in the Chinese Fairies in the Garden The 1881 assassination of President James A. coming a model for sustainable design. associate at The Huntington, for this three- Explore The Huntington’s most scentsational Garden on Friday, June 10, and complimen - June 11 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–noon Garfield and the harrowing medical efforts Members: $15. Non-Members: $20. part lecture landscape with Tom Carruth, the E. L. and tary morning admission to the gardens on Gardens are magical places. Kids will go in that failed to save him are recounted in Registration: huntington.org/calendar. series Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collec - Saturday, June 11. Reservations: search of fairies among the flowers and trees, Candace Millard’s gripping book, Destiny of the surveying the tions, then create some floral art inspired by http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ and then plant their own miniature gardens Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Flower Arranging with Roses develop ment the roses with instructor Laura Moede. Ages event/2517759 Murder of a President. Book group facilitator June 4 (Saturday) 10 a.m.–noon of American in this workshop with instructor Laura 5–12. Fee includes one accompanying adult. Moede. Ages 5–12. Fee includes one Southern California Gardener Series Judith Palarz leads the discussion. Members: Taking inspiration from the Rose Garden and art in the Members: $25. Non-Members: $35. $25. Non-Members: $35. Registration: the American art collection, the team from 19th century, accompanying adult. Members: $25. Irrigating your Southern Registration: huntington.org/calendar. Non-Members: $35. Registration: California Garden huntington.org/calendar. Flower Duet teaches students how to create from the art of the early Children’s Workshop huntington.org/calendar. June 26 (Sunday) 2 p.m. Plein Air Watercolor Series Republic to Cooking with Roses Tim Becker, director of horticulture at the May 12–June 30 (Thursdays) 9 a.m.–noon Children’s Workshop the Hudson May 21 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Theodore Payne Foundation, discusses best Learn the techniques of plein air watercolor Chinese Brush Painting River School Kids can savor the flavor of roses as well as practices for irrigating Southern California painting in an eight-week course taught by June 18 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–noon and up to the their wonderful fragrance by making rose- gardens to maintain optimum plant health artist Robert Sherrill. Sessions will be held Discover the expressive art of Chinese brush arrival of infused sorbet and lemonade in a cooking while conserving water. He’ll outline the pros outdoors in the gardens, where the landscape painting in this workshop led by artist Impressionism. Members: $75. Non- workshop with Punam Bhakta. The session and cons of various irrigation systems and of The Huntington offers endless inspiration. Peifang Liang. The landscape of the Chinese Members: $90. Registration: includes a tour of the Rose Garden with a offer recommendations for irrigating native, Members: $275. Non-Members: $295. Garden will provide creative inspiration. huntington.org/calendar. member of the Botanical staff. Ages 7–12. Fee drought-tolerant, and edible plants. General Registration: huntington.org/calendar. Ages 7–12. Fee includes one accompanying includes one accompanying adult. Members: admission. Botanical Auditorium, The Art of Wine Tasting adult. Members: $15. Non-Members: $25. Brody Botanical Center. Painting with Nan Rae $35. Non-Members: $45. Registration: Registration: huntington.org/calendar. May 18 & June 15 (Wednesdays) an artfully composed arrangement of roses June 15 (Wednesday) 5–7:30 p.m. huntington.org/calendar. East Asian Garden Lecture Series 11 a.m.–3 p.m and summer blooms that’s as stunning as a Full-bodied. Austere. Floral notes. A hint of Children’s Workshop Preschool Series Gardens and Nature in Artist Nan Rae continues her popular water - still-life painting. Members: $85. Non- chocolate. Explore the subjective art of wine The Great American Picnic Korean Landscape Paintings color classes inspired by the art of Chinese Members: $100. Registration: tasting (and the meaning of many common Huntington ArtVentures June 25 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. June 28 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. brush painting. Each session: $50. huntington.org/calendar. descriptors) in this class led by sommelier May 18, 25, June 1 & 8 Inspired by the exhibition “Geographies of and chef Brad Owen. A selection of high- (Wednesdays) 10 a.m.–noon Hyonjeong Kim Han, curator of Korean art at Registration: 818-842-6489. Curator Tour Wonder” on the origins of America’s national San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, explores quality wines will be sampled and discussed. Preschoolers can explore the galleries and parks, kids will explore the evolution of Wines of Central Italy “Geographies of Wonder” Members: $90. Non-Members: $105. gardens in search of textures, colors, shapes, the shift that occurred in landscape painting June 9 (Thursday) 4:30–6 p.m. another phenomenon of the great outdoors: in 18th-century Korea. Responding to a new May 18 (Wednesday) 5–7:30 p.m. Registration: huntington.org/calendar. and other “art forms” in this series led by the classic American picnic. Chef Ernest Join certified sommelier Brad Owen for an Join curator Peter Blodgett for a private tour of instructor Brooke Sauer. Each session includes the exhibition “Geographies of Wonder: Origin Father’s Day at The Huntington Miller leads this hands-on cooking class exploration of the complex wine world of stories, art activities, and more. Ages 3–5. Fee featuring picnic fare from the 1920s and ‘30s. Stories of America’s National Parks, 1872– June 18 & 19 (Saturday & Sunday) central Italy, from Tuscany to the Marche includes one accompanying adult. Members: Ages 7–12. Fee includes one accompanying region. Class includes an in-depth lecture and 1933,” exploring the evolving role of the (See details inside front cover.) $85. Non-Members: $95. Registration: national parks in American life. Members: $15. adult. Members: $35. Non-Members: $45. tasting. Members: $90. Non-Members: $105. huntington.org/calendar. Registration: huntington.org/calendar. Registration: huntington.org/calendar. Non-Members: $20. Registration: A Taste of Art: Camping in America huntington.org/calendar. June 25 (Saturday) 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Children’s Flower Arranging Taste of Art: English Tea Time The Language of Flowers Botanical Watercolor: Roses The creation of America’s national parks May 22 (Sunday) 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. inspired a new leisure pastime: camping. June 4 (Saturday) 1–2:30 p.m. June 11 & 12 (Saturday & Sunday) Explore the history and traditions of English tea Explore how park Pink roses for friendship. Rosemary for 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. through paintings and decorative arts in The tourism and remembrance. Children will learn the Learn techniques for creating accurate and Huntington’s art collections, then prepare a campsite meals Victorian language of flowers while making realistic botanical illustrations of roses in this traditional afternoon tea complete with finger influenced nosegay bouquets out of fresh flowers and academic approach focusing on observation two-part watercolor class taught by artist Lisa sandwiches, scones, clotted cream, and jam. American food - herbs in this hands-on workshop led by the and experimentation—known as Practical Pompelli. Beginners and more experi enced Members: $85. Non-Members: $100. ways in this Flower Duet team. Ages 7–12. Fee includes
Learning (Silhak)—painters began to depict watercolor artists are welcome; some prior JUNE • 2016
Registration: huntington.org/calendar. cooking work - | JUNE • 2016 real Korean people and landscapes instead of drawing experience is recommended. | shop with Maite idealized Confucian scenes. Free; no Garden Tour: The California Garden Members: $175. Non-Members: $195. Gomez-Rejón of reservations required. Rothenberg Hall Registration: huntington.org/calendar. June 1 (Wednesday) 9:30 a.m. ArtBites. The The Huntington’s new entry landscape, known Bonsai Academy session includes a as the Frances and Sidney Brody California June 11, 12, 18 & 19 (Saturdays and gallery discussion Garden, is planted with natives and drought- Sundays) 10 a.m.–4 p.m. of the exhibition Summer Camp Bonsai master Ted Matson leads an intensive “Geographies of Wonder: Origin Stories of four-session gakko, or school, in the art of America’s National Parks.” Members: $85. CALENDAR • MAY CALENDAR • MAY bonsai. Geared to beginners, the sessions Non-Members: $100. Registration: Reminder explore the history of bonsai, basic tree huntington.org/calendar. Have you registered for Huntington 6 botany and horticultural challenges, design Explorers yet? Classes are filling up 7 r The Café will be open until 7:15 p.m. before concepts and training techniques, and bonsai fast! Check the online schedule for display. All supplies and tools are provided, the start of events showing this symbol. Program classes and availability; attendees can enjoy a select variety of dinner including demonstration trees for classroom options, desserts, beer, and wine in the dining practice. Members: $120. Non-Members: huntington.org/Explorers venue overlooking the gardens, just steps away $135. Registration: huntington.org/calendar. from Rothenberg Hall. QUESTIONS? 626-405-2100 President’s Message Educational Impact
alking with Lynda and Blaine Fetter about why Intellectual Romps and Scenic Treks they support The Huntington’s education pro - grams, one of the first words that you hear is through America’s Past T“impact.” “We made a conscious decision several years
Photo by Meeno ago to focus our giving where we could have an impact,” says Blaine Fetter, a Huntington Overseer nd now some brief commentary about a subject Another fascinating slice of the American since 2009. The couple honed their priorities to that, truth be told, I never thought about until narrative being explored by historians at The Hunt - concentrate on local causes that help children: The hear ing it at The Huntington: guano. Yes, ington is the founding of our national parks. This Boys & Girls Club of the Foothills, Children’s Aguano. That is, black gold; Pacific, Caribbean, year marks the centennial of the National Park Hospital Los Angeles, and The Huntington. and Atlantic tea. Really pricey bird droppings that, in Service, and in May we open the first of two exhi - When Catherine Allgor, the Nadine and addition to making great fertilizer and producing bitions celebrating this milestone. (See the story on Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education, asked spectacular crops, created a 19th-century economic page one.) The show features some 100 rare items Lynda and Blaine Fetter have made a two-year commitment the Fetters about supporting a master educator with to support The Huntington’s education program. boom. As it turns out, one of our long-term fellows, drawn from The Huntington’s collections. As an avid public school expertise, the Fetters knew immedi - Professor Daniel Immerwahr, a wonderful historian trekker, I have a particular fondness for the wilder - ately that the position would have enor mous impact spotted with a group of students in tow. In addition from Northwestern University, has spent a year at ness, not only because of what it has meant for me on The Huntington’s commit ment to school pro - to his 18 years in the Whittier City School District The Huntington researching a book on U.S. terri - but also because of what it has meant for my son. He grams. “We want to help The Hunting ton reach as as a classroom teacher and instruc tional specialist, tories, and he discusses the history, use, and com - and I have gone on some spectacular hiking trips many students as possible,” said Blaine. “Adding an Almada trained at the Library of Congress and is a mercial purposes of guano in a chapter. As Professor together. As a result, we share a special bond that educator with public school expertise was akin to mentor in its Teaching with Primary Sources pro - Immerwahr insightfully reveals, the lust for guano for many other parents may recognize, one that is formed dropping a pebble in a pond. The ripple effect goes gram. His chief responsi bility at The Hunt ington is agricultural purposes made it such a stunningly when you have climbed all day and you’re dog tired, all the way to the edge.” to assess and evaluate every school pro gram. Assess - important commodity for the United States during and you happen around a bend, and suddenly an Lynda and Blaine stepped forward at a pivotal ment is key. “We want to know that our school the 19th century that we nearly went to war with immense and breathtaking vista opens up before you, moment. “Strengthening our programs for kinder - programs really do make a differ ence for the stu - Peru, and it is the reason why some U.S. territories filled with the wonders of nature as far as the eye can garten through grade 12 is a priority in the 2015–20 dents and the teachers,” said Allgor. came into existence. see. You know in that moment that something has strategic plan, and it’s very much in line with Presi - The Fetters speak movingly about the excel - Audiences at The Huntington were treated to changed and that, in fact, it is your child. And you dent Laura Trombley’s vision to bolster our educa - lence of The Huntington’s library, art, and an intellectual romp through a very curious slice of know that he will never forget this, and that he will tional outreach,” explained Allgor. “Our goal is for botanical collections. Said Blaine, “The challenge is American history that, for Professor Immerwahr, always take with him a deep appreciation for this every visiting student to engage with original mate - making the collections come alive for students in a twists and turns in astonishingly personal ways. We place, this moment in time, and the hard work that rial in our collections and reinforce the skills they way that inspires them to assess all their options.” videotaped the lecture, and I strongly encourage you led to this most remarkable accomplishment. are learning in the classroom.” The Fetters are convinced that the public school to make a cup of coffee or tea and take time to savor Our national parks, as curator Peter Blodgett Thanks to the Fetters’ generous two-year com - educator will go a long way toward achieving that on our new Huntington Channel what we all enjoyed explains, were our very first cultural markers: “In mitment, educator Raul Almada joined the Hunt - goal, ensuring that their support—and The Hunt - hearing in person. You can find the YouTube link to those early years of Euro-American settlement,” he ington staff in February. He is already a familiar ington’s school programs—will have the maximum Professor Immerwahr’s talk at the bottom of our says, “we could claim no cultural assets like the presence on the grounds, where he is frequently impact. website’s homepage at huntington.org. Professor Louvre or the castles on the Rhine. These parks Immerwahr’s work is proof positive that The Hunt - quickly became our icons and were essential to our
JUNE • 2016 JUNE • 2016 • JUNE | | ington not only plays a very relevant role in helping cultural identity.” Even today, that rings true. I hope us better understand the complex and multilayered that, even if you’re not able to go trekking in one of history of this nation, but also that our massive our national parks this summer, you’ll come visit the Kids, Engineering, and Origami collections provide material to assist scholars in exhibition and celebrate these great places that bring s part of a year-long Huntington program, students creating an exciting, multilayered, and contextual us together. at one of our educational partner schools, Esteban E. understanding of our present. With this first video of A Laura Skandera Trombley, president Torres High School, have been learning about engineering one of our many outstanding speakers, a new era has CALENDAR • MAY
CALENDAR • MAY MAY • CALENDAR and technology with the aid of a surprising tool: origami. begun: the era of the Huntington Channel. Look for Caltech graduate student Manan Arya (pictured at left), new videos to be added to our website in the future as 8 a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering, was enlisted well as live webcasts of events—bringing The Hunt - 9 to teach a class exploring how the scientific principles of ington to you, with the help of technology, when you paper-folding can resolve real-life technology challenges. can’t be here yourself. Students also visited The Huntington’s Japanese Garden for some historical and cultural context. You can read the full story on Verso, the Huntington blog, at huntingtonblogs.org, search word “Origami.” Farewell to Laurie Sowd Yasuhiro Ishimoto Photographs Greene & Greene
fter 24 remarkable years at The Huntington, Laurie Sowd apanese architecture had a huge influence on has hung up her hard hat as vice president of operations famed California Arts and Crafts architects and has moved on to embrace new challenges. She leaves an Charles and Henry Greene. For the first time in Ainsti tution that has been entirely transformed. Sowd guided Jthe United States, a photography exhibition will some 20 construction projects, from the creation of the Chinese examine that impact from a Japanese perspective. Garden to the new Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor “Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Bilingual Photography Center. Her impressive list of achievements also includes the and the Architecture of Greene & Greene” features expansion of the American art galleries and the renovations of 52 works produced by the 20th-century Japanese- the Huntington Art Gallery and the Japanese Garden. At the American photographer. Forty-six of them are same time, Sowd oversaw a 176-person division and a $10 sumptuous black-and-white photographs show- million budget, directing the key departments of security, casing Greene & Greene architecture. Ishimoto facilities, and information technology. produced the suite of images in 1974 for the Sowd has now taken up a wonderful new opportunity at Japanese design magazine Approach. They were the California Science Center, where, as senior vice president of printed by the artist and are on loan from The operations, she’ll lead the ambitious project of building a new Museum of Art, Kochi in Japan. Another six photo - home for the space shuttle Endeavour. You can read a tribute to Laurie Sowd on the Verso blog at graphs are seminal shots that Ishimoto took of the huntingtonblogs.org/2016/03/gratitude. Interior detail of the Robert R. Blacker house in Pasadena, 17th-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, designed by Greene & Greene. Photograph by Yasuhiro Japan, in 1954. Ishimoto, 1974. © Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro The exhibition will be on view June 18–Oct. 3, Photo Center. 2016, in the Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing of Book News the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. “Ishimoto’s images represent a unique The Blooming Desert Alex Israel at Just down the hall from that gallery is a refreshed vision, fashioned by his birth and education in installation of The Huntington’s permanent display the United States and a subsequent career in The Huntington t’s impossible to walk through the 10-acre of Greene & Greene furniture, organized in collabo - Japan, where he ultimately became a natural - Desert Garden without feeling a little bit awe- lex Israel’s art explores ra tion with the Gamble House/University of ized citizen,” said Mallek. “His images don’t Istruck. The sheer diversity of plant species— the icono graphy of L.A. Southern California. set the works of architecture apart from the with their unusual colors, shapes, textures, and Aand the Hollywood cult The proximity of the two galleries will allow viewer, nor do they put them on a pedestal. adaptations—draws visitors back again and of celebrity, positing L.A. as visitors to experience the designs of Charles and One is pulled in, as if to observe the details that again. Exploring the garden in spring and early central to an under standing Henry Greene (known for principled, hand-crafted, only the architects and craftsmen may have of American culture and the summer can be especially delightful, as many and distinctive early 20th-century Arts and Crafts cared about.” American dream. A new cacti and colorful succulents come into vivid book, which accompanies homes) just a few yards away from their photo - Before his death, Ishimoto expressed his bloom. See them for yourself on your next visit. the exhibi tion Alex Israel at The Huntington, places 16 of graphic interpretations by Ishimoto. wish to have these photographs shown in the Israel’s paintings and sculptures, as well as two site- “Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s beautifully sensitive United States. Now, more than 40 years after Pictured: Echinopsis ‘Flying Saucer.‘ specific murals, among the works in the historic photographs of famous Greene & Greene commis - the photos were made, his wish is being
JUNE • 2016 Huntington Art Gallery, which once served as the JUNE • 2016
| sions are extraordinary in their composition, tex - fulfilled. residence of Gilded Age collectors Henry and Arabella | ture, and perception, and will add new meaning for Huntington. Intended to spark a dialogue between the new and the old, this intervention of Israel’s work within visitors, as they wander the galleries and explore our This exhibition is made possible by the generous the gallery creates a discourse on place and identity, two collections” said Kevin Salatino, the Hannah and support of the Steven and Kelly McLeod Family things funda mental to understanding Henry Russel Kully Director of the Art Collections at The Foundation. Additional support was provided Huntington’s own love of Southern California, a region Huntington. by John and Sherry Light, Frank and Toshie whose identity he helped to forge. The exhibition was curated by Anne Mallek, Mosher, Harvey and Ellen Knell, Mr. and Mrs. This catalog is lavishly illustrated with installation CALENDAR • MAY photographs by Fredrik Nilsen, and includes two former curator of the Gamble House in Pasadena, Mark J. Ledbetter, Akiko Satsuma, and the CALENDAR • MAY scholarly essays: one by art critic, novelist, and filmmaker and Edward R. “Ted” Bosley, Gamble House Susan and Stephen Chandler Exhibition 11 10 Chris Kraus, and the other by Los Angeles art writer, director. The Gamble House was designed by the Endowment. educator, and curator Jan Tumlir—as well as an interview Greenes in 1908. with Israel by Kevin Salatino, the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of the Art Collections at The Huntington. Hardcover, $35. Available in the Huntington Store or online at thehuntingtonstore.org. Gardens open 5:30–8 p.m. An Evening Among the Roses SummerEveningsforMembers Music 6:30–7:30 p.m. June 26 (Sunday) A Celebration of the LGBT Community at The Huntington Contributor level and above Lori Andrews JazHarp Quartet Shattering clichés about harp music while bridging embers are invited to enjoy four special Summer Evenings he Huntington kicks off National Pride the gap between traditional and contemporary jazz. at The Huntington in June, July, and August. Wander Month on Friday, June 3, with “An July 9 (Saturday) through the gardens as the sun sinks low in the sky, dine TEvening Among the Roses,” the third Smith the Band Mat the Café, or bring your own picnic to enjoy on the lawn annual garden party celebrating the Current and classic country music favorites while listening to live music. (Don’t forget your blanket or for all ages. important contributions of the LGBT chair.) commu nity to The Huntington. From All gardens will be open during Members’ Summer July 30 (Saturday) donors and staff to the individuals whose Evenings, as will the Huntington Store. The Library and art Zhiming Han New Age Ensemble works are preserved in the collections, the galleries will be closed. International musical styles and instruments create a relaxing and positive soundscape. LGBT community is well represented at These after-hours events are a benefit of Membership The Huntington. This event is an at the Contributor, Affiliate, Supporting, Patron, Benefactor, August 13 (Saturday) Quintet from the Pasadena Symphony opportunity to celebrate their important, and Society of Fellows levels. For Membership information, Selections from their classical repertoire. ongoing contributions. call 626-405-2124 or visit huntington.org. The elegant soiree will take place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. among thousands of fragrant blooms in the Rose Garden. Tickets are $95 and must be purchased in
advance. (Last year’s event sold out quickly, so be Photo Jamie Pham sure to get your tickets early.) Fanciful garden party attire is suggested. For additional information, Wells Fargo is proud to be lead sponsor of tickets, or to make a donation to support the event, “An Evening Among the Roses.” visit huntington.ticketleap.com/amongtheroses2016.
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