Tues Aug. 30, 7:30 PM at Friend’s Hall (Free) Enjoy the freshest, tastiest salad fixings and save money at the same time. Tara Kolla of Silver Lake Farms will share tips for propagating, growing, and harvesting a bounty of organic baby greens, whether your home garden is a half-acre of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Edward Hopper, Forever
“The Long Leg” by Edward Hopper has been a favorite painting with Huntington visitors since its debut in 1984 as one of the artworks that established the American art collection. On Aug. 24 it received the additional distinction of being issued as a postage stamp, the latest in the U.S. Postal Service’s American Treasures series. Continue reading
From the Cradle to the Cradle
While Huntington visitors have long admired the Gutenberg Bible on display in the Library Exhibition Hall, few may realize that it is in two volumes—while one is on display, the other is at rest in an acid-free archival box in a vault. Continue reading
EXHIBITIONS | Out of the Shadows
Huntington curators call the second half of the 18th century England’s “golden age of mezzotint.” Invented in the 1600s, the engraving technique was little used until it exploded in popularity in the mid 1700s. Continue reading
Captured in Translation
Two images from The Huntington’s collection certainly expose racial stereotypes, but also remind us that in the 1860s photography was still in its infant stage. During the Civil War, photography matured from a scientific tool into an irreplaceable graphic medium. Continue reading
EXHIBITIONS | Advancing Truth in Nature
Working almost entirely in landscape his whole career, Aaron Draper Shattuck has now become a nearly forgotten American Pre-Raphaelite artist. His post-1850 drawing “On the Androscoggin” seems today ironic, since within Shattuck’s lifetime, the waterway would become one of the most polluted rivers in the nation. Continue reading
Newton’s Death Mask
A plaster death mask of Isaac Newton, one of only five known originals, gives us a rare familiarity with a giant of science and mathematics. “The Newton death mask is an iconic artifact in the study of Newton,” says Daniel Lewis, Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at The Huntington. Continue reading