Past Exhibitions

This focused exhibition explores the darker side of the imagination through a variety of works on paper depicting death, witchcraft, and the demonic in European art.

Posters from World War I spotlight the use of graphic arts as propaganda

This exhibition features a selection of 33 of Dürer's most highly regarded prints, which range from small woodcuts to large and ambitious engravings. Originally created for a sophisticated audience from all corners of Europe, the pieces encompass a spectrum of religious and secular themes in rich and complex ways.

In 1932, The Huntington's curator of manuscripts, Reginald Haselden, received a letter from Harold Willoughby at the University of Chicago, who had enclosed one of four illuminated manuscript leaves that an antiquities dealer was offering for sale.

This exhibition explores the link between topography and tourism in the development of British landscape painting from the late 17th to the early 19th century.

Carved by the most famous French portrait sculptor of his day, this magnificent bust celebrates the ravishing beauty of Anne-Germaine Larrivée.

Best known for his imagery of animals and people, particularly African and Native Americans, rendered in Abstract Figurative and early modern styles, Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) was one of the first African American artists in California to achieve a national reputation. He worked as a painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, but is best known as a sculptor.

This focused exhibition displays 15 works by Flemish, Dutch, German, and Italian artists from The Huntington's collections.

An international loan exhibition examines the life of the iconic priest and mission-era California.

The Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West present an innovative, web-based digital exhibition with more than a dozen authors, critics, and scholars curating photographs from the 70,000-strong Southern California Edison archive at The Huntington.

The Cottage Door (ca. 1780) is one of Thomas Gainsborough's most famous paintings. The idealized scene of rustic country life was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780, but both the subject and the composition continued to haunt the artist, and he repeated the design twice during the course of the decade.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, historians, bibliophiles, and collectors turned ordinary books into extraordinary "illuminated palaces"—repositories for original art, prints and engravings, maps, autograph letters, and the excised pages of other, more famous books.