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WEBSITE: huntington.org ADMISSION: Members: Free. Non-Members Laura Skandera Trombley adult rates: Weekdays $20. Weekends $23. (See website for dis counted senior, group, and New from children’s rates.) Admission is free to all To Become Next Huntington President visitors on the first Thursday of each month Huntington with advance tickets. aura Skandera Trombley increases in membership and HOURS: Mon., Wed., Thurs., and Fri.: noon– Library Press has been named to succeed endow ment, capped off with 4:30 p.m. Sat. and Sun.: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. the planned opening in April inally, a book as beautiful and Steven Koblik as president Monday holidays: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. of the new $68 million Steven as filled with rare treasures as Lof The Huntington. Skan - SUMMER HOURS: (June–August) FThe Huntington itself. dera Trombley takes the helm S. Koblik Education and 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. daily, excluding Tues - on July 1, the first woman to do Visitor Center. days. Closed Tuesdays and major holidays. The lavishly illustrated new volume The Huntington Library, Art so, follow ing Koblik’s retire - “It is a place I know EFRESHMENTS The Rose Garden Café Collec tions, and Botanical Gardens: Cultivating Curiosity offers the first R : ment on June 30. well,” Skandera Trombley serves light meals and beverages. Tea is served truly in-depth look at the institution and its multifaceted collec tions. Skandera Trombley said of The Huntington, “and in the Rose Garden Tea Room. For informa - Featuring more than 250 full-color photographs, the book captures it has been a constant part of tion and reserva tions, call 626-683-8131. the gardens throughout the seasons while highlighting works both comes to The Huntington after my personal and scholarly Enjoy Chinese cuisine in the Garden familiar and little-known from the Library and Art collec tions. It also 13 years as president of Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. life. When I was a child, my of Flowing Fragance. provides a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the activities of Under her leader ship, the mother and I visited the gar - GIFT SHOP: The shop carries a variety of scholars, curators, teachers, and students for whom The Huntington college completed three dens. As a budding Twain books, art and botanical prints, note cards, provides endless opportunities for exploration and discovery. and gift items related to The Hunt ington’s successful fundraising cam - scholar, I did research there The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: collec tions. Pur chases help finance the institu - paigns, raising over $110 30 years ago that would Cultivating Curiosity ($35.95, softcover) is available in the Huntington tion. For information, call 626-405-2142. million and increasing its culminate in my first book, Store or online at thehuntingonstore.org. and just a few years ago, I Lisa Blackburn, Editor/Photographer endowment by more than 200 Avelina E. Moeller, Designer percent. At the same time, the returned to use the collection Thea M. Page, Contributing writer college’s ranking on U.S. News Photo courtesy of Pitzer College to complete my fifth one. Like and World Report’s list of top many of us in the humanities, On the covers: (front and back): Winter blooming aloes in the Desert colleges improved 50 percent, moving from 70th I love The Hunt ington not just for its considerable Senior Staff Garden. Photos by Martha Benedict. to 35th, a feat unmatched in higher education. In library and art collections but for the importance it Steven S. Koblik Follow us! addition, Pitzer added eight new buildings during places on using these primary-source materials to President Find links to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, her tenure, all receiving Leadership in Energy and impact scholarship, education, and—through Instagram, Vimeo, Flickr, and the Verso blog at Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum or Gold exhibitions and displays—public under standing. Catherine Allgor huntington.org. Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim certification. But my excitement extends further still, knowing Director of Education “With strong strategic insights, unceasing about The Huntington’s important role in James P. Folsom persistence, and a talented team that she assem - botanical science and its ability to use the gar dens Marge and Sherm Telleen / Marion and Earle bled, Laura put the college on very sound foot ings, to teach about plant adaptation, conserva tion, and Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens exhibitions both financial and academic,” said Stewart Smith, the future of the planet’s magnificent biodiversity.” Anne Gustus chair of the board at The Hunt ington. “It is a Skandera Trombley, who holds bachelor’s FEBRUARY • 2015 Executive Assistant to the President “Highlights of American Drawings and Watercolors from success story that is the envy of many other liberal and master’s degrees from Pepperdine University | Steve Hindle The Huntington’s Art Collections” arts colleges. Laura is a woman of fierce intellect, a and a Ph.D. in English from the University of W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research Through Jan. 5 | Scott Galleries, Chandler Wing solid leader with tremendous energy and a strong Southern Califor nia, is a leading scholar on Mark Coreen A. Rodgers vision for how to continue to build on The Hunt - Twain. She has published five books and countless “Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and Anne and Jim Rothenberg Vice President ington’s substantial strengths. More broadly, she is articles on the American icon, was featured in Ken for Financial Affairs the Art of Invention” a passionate proponent of the humanities who Burns’ 2002 documentary on Twain, and has been Kevin Salatino Opens Jan. 24 | Scott Galleries, Chandler Wing articulates their value and fundamental impor - invited to lecture all over the world. She attributes Hannah and Russel Kully Director “The U.S. Constitution and the End of American Slavery” of the Art Collections tance in such a convincing manner that we knew her scholarly success, in part, to work done at The Opens Jan. 24 Library, West Hall without a doubt she would be the right person to Huntington. It was in the collections that she CALENDAR • JANUARY Randy Shulman | lead The Huntington at this time.” discovered important Twain material that provided Vice President for Advancement “Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro: some of the rich fodder that led to her fifth book, a Laurie Sowd Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland” At The Huntington, Skandera Trombley 1 highly acclaimed biography published by Knopf in Vice President for Operations Through March 9 | MaryLou and George Boone Gallery will oversee a staff of some 450, an annual budget 2010 entitled Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Susan Turner-Lowe of $40 million, and an endowment of about $450 Vice President for Communications “Eccentric Visions: Drawings by Henry Fuseli, million. She follows a long period of program - Hidden Story of His Final Years. David S. Zeidberg William Blake, and Their Contemporaries” matic and capital expansion, and substantial Avery Director of the Library Through March 16 | Huntington Art Gallery, Second Floor GRAND OPENING! New Huntington Store Opens Jan. 14

he Huntington Store, anchor of the north section of the new Steven S. Koblik Educa tion and Visitor Center, Topens to the public on Jan. 14. Twice The highlight of a family visit to the store Finally, a small, rarified space toward the the size of its predecessor, the new store is will be the children’s area, where a whimsical back of the store, known playfully as “the vault,” sure to dazzle shoppers with its airy, sky-lit tree rises to the ceiling with plush toy birds allows visitors to handle the highest-end china, central space surrounded by eight thematic perched on its branches. Among the tree’s jade, fine jewelry, and silk art scarves, and to see rooms brimming over with a greatly gnarled roots, children can sit in child-sized “tree up close a limited-edition, hand-embroidered expanded selection of merchandise relating seats” while they browse through books. Time- Chinese screen based on The Huntington’s to The Hunt ing ton’s collections. honored Steiff brand teddy bears roam here along Audubon masterpiece, The Birds of America. The store is part of the new visitor with custom-made Huntington Gardener Bears, These screens were made expressly for the open - center's front section, which includes a which have an embroidered Huntington “H” on ing and are available exclusively in the Hunt - coffee shop and full-service admissions and their paws. ington Store. membership area that will open at the same Grownups will gravitate toward a nearby The Steven S. Koblik Education and time as the store. The rest of the complex room that specializes in books relating to The Visitor Center is designed by Architectural Huntington’s renowned collections of material Resources Group. Miroglio Architecture and opens in April and will feature a 400-seat Artist rendering of the Huntington Store. auditorium, a large café with indoor/outdoor Architectural Resources Group and Office of on British and American history and literature. Design created interior finishes and furnishings seating and garden views, four multi-use Cheryl Barton, © Art Zendarski. Subjects range from California history to Jane for the Huntington Store. classrooms, meeting and event spaces, and an Austen, from Charles Bukowski to Shakespeare. Sore hours (effective Jan. 14) are 10 a.m. orientation gallery—all arranged amid six and Distinctive book-themed gifts can be found here, to 5 p.m. daily, exclud ing Tuesdays. Open a half acres of new gardens. how-to guides, classical stone garden statuary, such as natural quartz bookends and men’s ties Tuesday by appointment. For information, call and ceramics such as handmade “Seedpod with the look of endpaper marbling. 626-405-2142. What’s Inside Bowls” and “Foxglove Goblets.” The Huntington’s art collections inspired Shop online at thehuntingtonstore.org. Upon entering the Huntington Store, visitors In another room, high-end objects a room devoted to art books and gifts as well as will be greeted in the spacious central area by relating to The Huntington’s Asian gardens one focused on the Arts and Crafts movement. dynamic seasonal displays. Lunar New Year beckon, with exquisite handmade jewelry, This alcove includes items large and small, from William Morris-inspired textiles and furniture and Valentine’s Day will inspire the first Chinese porcelain, lanterns, and unique gifts Special preview shopping opportunities will handmade by Southern California craftsmen to arrange ment, with Asian themed home decor such as handcrafted Japanese ikebana flower be offered to Members (Jan. 13) and the items and an eclectic mix of romantic gifts such vases in fine wood boxes. Arts and Crafts lamps and handmade tiles. Society of Fellows (Jan. 14). See details on as jewelry engraved with lines from Shake - An extraordinary chandelier of porcelain Another specialized area in the store pages 4 and 12, respectively. speare’s sonnets. teacups can be found in an alcove focused on the features Huntington-branded keepsakes along Branching off from the central space, a genteel rituals of afternoon tea, along with tea with books produced by the Huntington Library FEBRUARY • 2015 | FEBRUARY • 2015 Press. | room devoted to botanical books and gifts will sets reminiscent of the priceless collection of lure garden enthusiasts in to browse. Here Sèvres porcelain on view in the Huntington Art shoppers will find beautiful note cards and Gallery as well as those based on famous wrapping papers, garden tools and practical children’s storybooks. CALENDAR • JANUARY CALENDAR • JANUARY 3 2 4 CALENDAR • JANUARY | FEBRUARY • 2015 purchase, andmore. [email protected]. 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An Emperor'sEncyclopedia The YongleDadian: Music intheChineseGarden Viewing StonesShow Jan. 8(Thursday)7:30p.m Lecture Wednesdays, 1–3p.m. 10:30 a.m.–4:30p.m. Dec. 26–Jan.2(ClosedJan.1) Public Programs Public For Our Members Our For ions: avolumeoftheYongleEncyclopedia, lowing Fragrance.Generaladmission. ington.org. ay afternoonintheGardenof the Library’scollec - es and and other versity, examineswhy oneofthemost and philosophyof scienceatIndianaUni - William R.Newman,professorofhistory C developed identity, asthetearitualandutensils that sencha Graham exploresthetransformativeeffects precedents. 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Registration:brownpapertickets.comor other works.Members:$35.Non-Members: excerpts fromTheMarriageofFigaro and artistsfromLAOperawillperform music director,willpresentshortlectures, of Educa tion, andJamesConlon,LAOpera Catherine Allgor,TheHuntington’sdirector property rightsinthe18thcentury. 10 a.m.–3p.m. Feb. 14&15(SaturdaySunday) Feb. 14(Saturday)9a.m.–noon Feb. 12(Thursday)4:30p.m. Feb. 4(Wednesday)7p.m. 11:30 a.m. Jan. 29(Thursday) Camellia Intensive Botanical Illustration: with Na Wild FoodForaging the EndofAmericanSlavery The U.S.Constitutionand An EveningwithLAOpera Desert Garden Curator Tour: rogram thatexaminesmarriageand nce Klehm 6. and 5 CALENDAR • JANUARY | FEBRUARY • 2015 JAN. – FEB. 2015 EVENTS

Book Group: Feb. 19: Letter from Susan B. Anthony, with as an artist. Members: $15. Non-Members: Jack London curator Peter Blodgett $20. Registration: brownpapertickets.com Feb. 18, March 18, March 12: Chinese immigrant’s “coaching or 800-838-3006. April 15 & May 20 paper,” with archivist Li Wei Yang Tai Chi Series (Wednesdays) Each tour: Members: $10. Non-Members: $15. Registration: brownpapertickets.com or Feb. 28–April 11 (Saturdays) 10 a.m.–noon 800-838-3006. American writer Jack 8:45–10:15 a.m. Experience tai chi in the tranquil setting of the London is the focus of this Wines of South America series with facilitator Judith gardens in this seven-part series led by Feb. 25 (Wednesday) 5–7:30 p.m. Palarz. Featured books: Earle instructor Kathy Chyan, suitable for begin- Together, We Did It! Chile and Argentina each have a long history Labor’s Jack London: An ning and intermediate students. Members: of quality wine production. Explore the American Life and the Library $150. Non-Members: $175. Registration: different regions through lecture and tasting of America volumes Jack brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. with wine expert Brad Owen. Members: $90. London: Novels and Stories Non-Members: $105. Registration: Bonsai Workshop appy New Year! I say this with all sincerity, gardeners, art and book collectors, people with a and Jack London: Novels and Social Writings. brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. Feb. 28 (Saturday) 9 a.m.–noon (Show your registration at the Huntington but it is bittersweet as well, since this period deep sense of history, and a strong passion for The Learn the ancient art of growing and shaping Store to receive a discount on series titles.) marks the last six months of what has been the Huntington and its mission. Many of them—like Curator Tour: Samuel F.B. Morse’s miniature trees in a hands-on workshop, Members: $95. Non-Members: $110. Registra - Sherm and Marge Telleen, for instance—have been Gallery of the Louvre presented in conjunction with the weekend’s Hmost remarkable period of my life: my time at tion: brownpapertickets.com or Feb. 26 (Thursday) 4:30 p.m. Bonsai-a-Thon event. Trees and supplies The Huntington. I’ve just come from my final involved at The Huntington for decades, spending 800-838-3006. Curator Jessica Smith leads a private tour of provided. Members: $35. Non-Members: board retreat, a weekend gathering where The many days each week here, as docents and as mem - Spotlight Tours the exhibition ”Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of $45. Registration: brownpapertickets.com or Huntington’s two boards, the Board of Overseers bers of our Board of Overseers. Their lifelong com - the Louvre and the Art of Invention,” which 800-838-3006. Feb. 19 & March 12 (Thursdays) 11:15 a.m. focuses on a monumental painting by and the Board of Trustees, come together with the mitment and connection to The Huntington is Learn the stories behind selected objects on inventor Samuel Morse, who began his career senior staff to talk about the future of this extra - extraordinary. And as a group, these folks are display by taking a 30-minute spotlight tour. ordinary institution. We have been doing this amazing. They work hard together; they play biannually; and, without fail, each exercise has hard together; they even travel together. proven extremely fruitful, spurring action in a I call attention to this because it’s unusual to variety of ways. One year we met to talk about the have two separate boards for one institution. It’s Children and Families master plan for the property (which eventually led even more unusual to have two separate boards to the construction of the Education and Visitor working so seamlessly and so well together every up a delicious morning meal with Maite Center); on another occasion we discussed The step of the way. I could not have led The Hunting -

Gomez-Rejón of ArtBites. Ages 7–12. MESSAGE Members: $55. Non-Members: $65. Fee Huntington’s multiple audiences and best way to ton to where it is now and to what it has become includes one accompa nying adult. serve them. We also examined the matter of without the strong support and the good work of Registration: brownpapertickets.com exhibitions. And this past year we delved into the the boards. Board chairs are invited to attend our or 800-838-3006 theme of “capacity” in all its manifestations. senior staff meetings each Tuesday, and they do; Preschool Series: The Huntington’s governance structure is they engage in our discussions and provide helpful Patriotic Presidents unique and, at first blush, can seem daunting. perspective. We are all better for this level of Feb. 4, 11, 18 & 25 (Wednesdays) Henry Huntington established the institution with transparency, as it connects us even more firmly to 10 a.m.–noon Celebrate President’s Day all month long a governing Board of Trustees composed of five the place, and the people, that comprise The with art projects, stories, and fun facts individuals. They have fiduciary responsibility and Huntington. about George Washington and Abraham the final authority over the institution, and they So, to my boards of Trustees and Overseers, Lincoln. Instructor Laura Moede leads four hire (and can remove!) the president. I say thank you. To my board chairs—all of them, weeks of discovery. Ages 3–5. Fee includes Folsom, Telleen/Jorgensen Director of the But over time it became clear that the insti - active and emeriti—I am grateful for your leader - one accompanying adult. Members: $85. FEBRUARY • 2015 |

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| Chinese Brush Painting tution was growing in such a manner that the ship, your insightful guidance, your intellect, and Non-Members: $95. Registration: shop exploring the botany of sugar and Jan. 17 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–noon brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. the chemistry of confections. Ages 7–12. Trustees needed additional governing assistance. your good humor. People the world over ask me Kids can learn the expressive art of Chinese Members: $10. Non-Members: $20. Fee And so, in the 1970s, they created a much larger how on earth we get this done with two boards, brush painting in this workshop led by artist Victorian Valentines includes one accompanying adult. Peifang Liang. The Chinese Garden will advisory group which they called the Board of assuming that this configuration would seem to be a Feb. 14 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–noon Registration: brownpapertickets.com or serve as their creative muse. Ages 7–12. Overseers. This group is now made up of more than recipe for all sorts of complications and misbe - Love is in the air! Kids can get creative by 800-838-3006. Members: $10. Non-Members: $20. Fee designing old-fashioned valentines for 60 individuals who each bring unique talents to the havior. But to a person, you all have focused on the includes one accompanying adult. friends and family in this workshop with Bonsai Builders job of helping guide The Huntington. They actively big picture, the greater good. Especially in a time of Registration: brownpapertickets.com or instructor Laura Moede. Ages 5–12. Feb. 28 (Saturday) 9–11:30 a.m. serve on committees that aid our senior staff in run - such incivility in public discourse, your civil, 800-838-3006. Members: $25. Non-Members: $35. Fee Join the fun of this weekend’s Bonsai-a-Thon

respectful, affirming leadership serves as reassur - CALENDAR • JANUARY includes one accompanying adult. in a hands-on workshop with the pros, and ning the institution, from finance to the botanical CALENDAR • JANUARY Family Cooking Class: then take home your own miniature tree to gardens, from the art and library collections to ance that yes, it’s entirely possible—and highly Breakfast in the UK Registration: brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. grow at home. Ages 7–12. Members: $25. education. Among them are business people, for - desirable—to run an institution this way. Forward! 7 6 Jan. 31 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m Non-Members: $35. Fee includes one Get a taste for life in the United Kingdom mer teachers, attorneys, engineers—individuals Steve Koblik, President The Sweet Science of Candy Making accompanying adult. Registration: through the exhibition “Bruce Davidson/ with a full range of expertise that helps guide us Feb. 18 (Wednesday) 4–6 p.m. brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. Paul Caponigro: Two American Photo - Candy making is delicious fun, but the toward sound decision making. But they are also graphers in Britain and Ireland,” then cook science behind it is totally sweet. Join Jim A Gift for Music Major Gift Honoring Steve Koblik to Promote Strategic Communications an and Regina Whitcomb have future through their estate long been a part of the life of plans. “Because we love the The Huntington. The popular art, architecture, gardens, trategic communications at The Huntington received a Iperformers have entertained research, and outreach pro - substantial boost in support this past fall when an anonymous visitors at countless events, setting grams, our hearts guided us to local family made a $500,000 gift in honor of Steve Koblik. The Sdonors said they want explicitly to support work done during everyone’s toes tapping to their bequeath our estate," said Steve’s tenure to increase the role of digital engagement through lively renditions of ragtime piano Regina. “We receive so much Web activities, video, and social media. music and ukulele tunes from the from all that The Huntington “It is clear that the way our audience receives information early 20th century. is, and we wish to do our and communicates with us has shifted dramatically in the past few Ian Whitcomb—who has small part to preserve The years, and will continue to do so,” says Koblik. “We need to harness recorded music ranging from a Huntington for future these new media platforms and work with them to best advantage, Grammy Award-winning album generations.” to help ensure our relevance and the value of The Huntington in of tunes played aboard the Titanic Donors like the Whit - discourse in research and education today.” to his own British Invasion hit in combs who make a gift to The The Communications group at The Huntington is led by 1965, “You Turn Me On”— Huntington through a will, Susan Turner-Lowe and includes a talented team of staffers who Says Koblik, “Part of the value of a possesses a deep, scholarly know - trust, retirement a ccount, or wear multiple hats—as writers, editors, web developers, graphic place like The Huntington comes from ledge of music history. That other planned gift are recog - artists, photo graphers, and videographers—producing news and what is learned from studying the know ledge has fueled many books nized for their generosity by Regina and Ian Whitcomb performing features online and in print. “We’ve become our own producers collections, whether it's advanced and song collections. Over the becoming members of the at The Huntington in 2009. and distributors, capable of reaching tens of thousands of people humanities research in the Library and Art years, much of his research has Arabella and Henry Hun - quickly with the click of a button,” said Turner-Lowe. “This gift is collections or cryopreservation of plant been done here at The Huntington, and he donated tington Heritage Society. extremely helpful, and it's encouraging to know that folks are materials in the Botanical Gardens. Now his own papers to the Library for the benefit of If you would like information about mak - paying close attention to what we’re doing in terms of outreach, we have tools to disseminate this new future scholars. Regina, a talented vocalist in her ing a gift to The Huntington through your will and seeing the value in it. Communications has been a work much more broadly and to larger own right, has performed with Ian and his band, or trust, or if you have already decided to include tremendously important area for Steve; he’s seen it as critically audiences, fueling debate, discussion, and the Bungalow Boys, on recordings, in clubs, and at The Huntington in your estate plans and would important to the success of his presidency and in moving The greater understanding. I am heartened music festivals. Their appearances at The Hunting - like to know more about the Heritage Society, Huntington forward.” and honored by this gift.” ton have always been enormous crowd-pleasers. please contact Cris Lutz at 626-405-2212 or The Whitcombs deepened their relationship to [email protected]. The Huntington by making a commitment to its

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Photo by Melissa Hoagland. An Inventor’s Other Claim to Fame The Road to the 13th Amendment

amuel F. B. Morse, of Morse code A new exhibition explores the long and difficult process that led to the end of slavery fame, may be better known as an inventor, but he began his career as a n commemoration of the 150th Spainter. His extraordinary six-by-nine- anniversary of the passage of the foot masterwork, Gallery of the Louvre, will 13th Amendment to the U.S. be on view at The Hunting ton Jan. 24 IConsti tution, The Huntington is through May 4 in the Susan and Stephen mounting an exhibition that exam ines Chandler Wing of the Virginia Steele Scott the decades of debate and conflict that Galleries. The presentation of the focused led to the abolition of slavery. Featur - exhibition “Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of ing some 100 manuscripts, rare books, the Louvre and the Art of Invention” will prints, and photographs from the mark the launch of a nine-venue tour of Library’s holdings, “The U.S. Consti - the United States organized by the Terra tu tion and the End of American Foundation for American Art, from whose Slavery” opens Jan. 24 and continues collection the painting is drawn. through April 20 in the West Hall. Created between 1831 and 1833, “The exhibition follows a long, Gallery of the Louvre reproduces famous tortuous, and bloody road that led to works by van Dyck, Murillo, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–33 that fateful vote in the House of Titian, and da Vinci, among others, arranged in an Oil on canvas, 73¾ x 108 in. Representatives on Jan. 31, 1865,” imagined installation in the Salon Carré at the Musee du Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.51 said Olga Tsapina, the Norris Louvre in Paris. Several artists are depicted seated at Founda tion Curator of American Historical easels around the gallery, honing their craft by copying Congress erupts in jubilation following the passage Manuscripts at The Huntington and curator of the masters. The monumental canvas has been seen as a Rare Morse-related historical materials from the of the 13th Amendment on Jan. 31, 1865. From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Feb. 8, 1865. sort of painted treatise on artistic practice, with Morse Library’s collections will augment the exhibition at The the exhibition. Major hurdles stood in the way of (depicted as the centrally placed instructor in the work) Huntington. ending slavery, she noted, including racism, fear, serving as a symbolic link between European art of the “Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the political partisanship, economic interests, and the past and America’s cultural future. Art of Invention” is organized by and with support from lack of political will. The Constitution presented fields, congressional speeches, and political In 2010, the Terra Foundation undertook a the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional the most formidable obstacle. The same national cartoons representing viewpoints from both sides conservation treatment of Gallery of the Louvre—a support from the Susan and Stephen Chandler Exhibition charter that had created a republic dedicated to of the partisan divide. process documented in a video that will be shown as Endowment. liberty also guaranteed the rights of Americans Among the exhibition’s highlights are a 1796 part of the exhibition. A com panion book, published by For details and exhibition tour venues and dates, who owned human property. The conflict letter by President George Washington discussing the Terra Foundation and distributed by Yale University visit huntington.org between the foundational principles of liberty and the fate of his runaway slave, Ona Maria “Oney” Press, assembles a dozen essays by academics, curators, the reality of American slavery proved to be Judge; Thomas Jefferson’s notes on amending the and conservators who focus on the painting’s visual irreconcilable. After decades of increasingly bitter Constitution; a notebook from the famous aboli - components and its social and historical contexts. tionist John Brown; and letters and manu scripts FEBRUARY • 2015 discord, it finally broke the Union apart, plung - |

ing the nation into civil war in 1861. Even the war from The Huntington’s collection of Abraham FEBRUARY • 2015 | failed to end human bondage. That was achieved Lincoln material, including Lincoln’s record of his Eccentric Visions only by changing the Constitution in a way its debates with Stephen A. Douglas and a copy of the n an age of great drawing, Anglo-Swiss painter Henry framers could not have imagined. 13th Amendment signed by the president. Fuseli (1741–1825) and his circle in Britain helped to Many voices help tell the exhibition’s story, “The exhibition tells a complex and fasci - Ipush the medium into new areas of expressiveness and including the writings of abolitionists, slave nating story,” said Tsapina, “in which the fate of boldness of conception. A small exhibition currently on masters, runaway slaves, slave speculators, mem - American slavery was decided not only on Civil view showcases about 30 works from The Huntington’s bers of the Underground Railroad, legal scholars, War battlefields, but also in courtrooms, the

CALENDAR • JANUARY exceptional holdings of drawings and water colors by and leaders of political parties. Visitors will see debating floors of state legislatures, and the Fuseli, William Blake, and the artists most closely manumissions (formal documents freeing slaves chambers of the U.S. Congress, as well as in CALENDAR • JANUARY 10 associated with them, including George Romney, John from servitude) and slave traders’ business proverbial smoke-filled rooms.” 11 Flaxman, Joseph Wright of Derby, James Barry, John correspondence, letters from Civil War battle - Brown, and Richard Cosway. “Eccentric Visions: Drawings by Henry Fuseli, William Blake, and Their Contemporaries” continues through March 16 on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery. In Bloom Welcoming the Year of the Ram

f you visit The Huntington during the t has become a tradition for many visitors: celebrating Chinese New Year at winter months, you might be forgiven for The Huntington. Make it part of your family’s tradition as we welcome the Ithinking that it’s spring. The gardens are IYear of the Ram with Chinese music, art, and culture. alive with colorful blooms, and the mild (In the event of rain, outdoor performances will not be held.) weather is ideal for enjoying the diversity of the landscape. Among the season’s stand - Chinese Cultural Arts Celebration Chinese New Year outs are flowering fruit trees and Asiatic Jan. 25 (Sunday) 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Festival magnolias in the Japanese and Chinese gar - Explore the folk arts of China in a day-long event that dens, torch-like aloes in the Desert Feb. 21 & 22 celebrates the approach of the Lunar New Year. Artists (Saturday & Sunday) Gardens, and camellias in the North Vista from Guangdong Province, China, will demonstrate 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. and Japanese Garden canyon. Other visitor ancient crafts such as intricate paper cutting, figurine The celebration continues with a two-day family favorites include the fragrant Michelia sculpting, jewelry making, and embroidery. Enjoy a event that will include lion dancers (at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., doltsopa tree outside the west entrance of contemporary photography exhibition and savor the and 3 p.m.), martial arts demonstrations, mask the Library Exhibition Hall and the “Pink flavors of authentic Chinese cuisine. General chang ing performances, traditional music, authentic Ball” dombeya (Dombeya wallichii) below admission. (Members free.) Chinese cuisine, and more. Many of the activities will the South Terrace of the Huntington Art The Chinese Cultural Arts Celebration is take place in and around the Hunt ington’s gardens. Gallery. made possible in part by the Ministry of Culture General admis sion. (Members free.) of the People’s Republic of China, the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture, Beauty Media Inc., and ICN TV Network. Pictured (clockwise from top left): Magnolia ‘Butterflies’, Dombeya wallichii, Aloe ‘Tangerine’, Prunus mume (Japanese flowering apricot). East West Bank is the sole corporate sponsor of The Huntington’s Chinese New Year events. Additional funding provided by The Justin Vajna Memorial Fund for Educational Programs in the Chinese Garden and The Cheng Family Foundation.

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