Past Exhibitions

Some 20 years before "the shot heard 'round the world" launched the American Revolution, a young Lt. Col. George Washington helped set a separate world conflict in motion.

From 1903 to 1905, American artist John Sloan created 53 etchings to illustrate comic novels by French author Charles Paul de Kock.

In the 19th century, color lithography created a communication revolution and brought art, literature, and music to the masses. The process had a dramatic impact on consumer culture...

During the 1920s and '30s, the Harlem Renaissance brought about a flourishing of African American literature, art, music, and social commentary.

During the nineteenth century, art of the Dutch Golden Age—roughly the seventeenth century—was the most sought by American collectors. Wealthy New Yorkers and Philadelphians vied for paintings, drawings and prints in the dealers' rooms and auction houses of Europe.

By the end of the first quarter of the 19th century, watercolor paintings of the western European landscape had become familiar to British collectors, who began to seek new and different imagery with which to decorate their houses.

The exhibition features 24 works from Halverson's Downstream series as well as a sampling of images from The Huntington's historic holdings related to the Colorado River region.

Samuel Johnson: Literary Giant of the 18th Century, a new exhibition opening May 23 and continuing through Sept. 21 in the West Hall of the Library, tells the story of Johnson's life and achievements through a display of rare books, manuscripts, and portraits drawn from The Huntington's holdings and from the Loren and Frances Rothschild Collection.

One of the greatest private collections of Chinese art in the nation is showcased at The Huntington in "Treasures through Six Generations: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Weng Collection," on view April 11 through July 13 in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery.

On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a new exhibition looks at the role of collectors in preserving his memory.

The Huntington, in partnership with the Gamble House, USC, presents the most comprehensive exhibition ever undertaken on the work of Arts and Crafts legends Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene—the first such exhibition to travel outside of California.

Although Charles Darwin (1809–1882) is well known for his theory of evolution, few people are aware of his insightful work with plants and the key role botany played in formulating his ideas.