The document summarizes upcoming exhibitions at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Four new exhibitions will focus on what it means to be American and international influences on American culture. One exhibition will feature early American artworks while renovations are underway. Another will showcase the life and advocacy of Chinese-American civil rights leader Y.C. Hong. A third will examine the impact of French Impressionism on American artists. A fourth will celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service and the history and impact of America's national parks.

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Contacts:
Thea M. Page, 626-405-2260, tpage@huntington.org
Lisa Blackburn, 626-405-2140, lblackburn@huntington.org
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT THE HUNTINGTON
SAN MARINO, Calif. – The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is
featuring four new upcoming exhibitions this coming year. This new slate of shows focuses on
the concept of what it means to be American and how international influencers have impacted
the concept of “American”. Twenty-five of the earliest works from The Huntington’s American
art collection will sit center stage for a temporary exhibition while the Virginia Steele Scott
Gallery of American Art undergoes expansion. Visitors will also get an inside look into the
struggles of one Chinese-American citizen and his fight for inclusion in American society.
Another show, part of a national travelling exhibition, will reflect the impact of French
Impressionism on American artists. Finally, a centennial anniversary arrives in 2016 for the
National Park Service and a special exhibition showcasing the history and impact of America’s
National Parks will invite visitors to join the celebration.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITS
American Made: Selections from The Huntington’s Early American Art Collections
September 5, 2015 – January 5, 2016
MaryLou and George Boone Gallery
While a portion of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art is closed for expansion
and reinstallation, about 25 selections from among the earliest works in the collection get the
spotlight in a temporary installation this fall, focusing on masterworks in various made
between 1700 and 1868. Paintings by the most influential artists of the period, such as Benjamin
West, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Frederick Edwin Church, are joined by
representative furniture, silver, and sculpture.
Y.C. Hong – Advocate for Inclusion
November 21, 2015 – March 21, 2016
Library, West Hall
Y.C. Hong may be the most respected name in Chinese-American history. As an immigration
lawyer, and the first Chinese-American to pass the California Bar Exam, Hong became a driving
influence in advocating for Chinese equality and inclusion in American society. He was also a
leader in the redesigning of L.A.’s Chinatown from a seedy, less reputable area to a well-
respected, family-friendly district. Drawn from the Huntington’s collection of Hong family
letters and documents, many of these manuscripts have never been on public display. The exhibit
will feature six sections that guide visitors through Hong’s career and personal life, his political
actions and involvement with transforming Chinatown, and provide a look into California life as
experienced by many Chinese immigrants.
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920
January 23, 2016 – May 9, 2016
MaryLou and George Boone Gallery
The Impressionist style of painting was popular with American artists between 1885 and 1915.
This major, national touring exhibition reveals the influence of such Impressionists as Monet,
Renior, and Pissarro on American Impressionists who depicted images of industrialization and
suburban landscapes that were unmistakably American. The Huntington will display 17 paintings
as a portion of the complete exhibition organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. It
combines elements of both artistic and botanical focus. There was a growing popularity in
gardening during this period as well; a catalog with supplement essays will compliment the
exhibition.
Geographies of Wonder: Americans and the National Park Idea
Part 1: Origin Stories of America’s National Parks 1872-1933
May 14, 2016 – September 3, 2016
Part 2: Evolution of the National Park Idea 1933-2016
October 22, 2016 – February 13, 2017
Library, West Hall

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Year 2016 marks the centennial of the establishment of the National Parks Service. As growing
scholarship in the history and importance of the NPS continues, The Huntington brings a two
part exhibition illustrating and celebrating the legacy of the NPS. Part one of this show will
highlight American encounters with natural phenomena, the establishment of the first national
parks, and of the NPS in 1916. Part two will show how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
influenced the NPS and how public interest of the national parks has grown. Drawn from The
Huntington’s collections of the NPS, these focused exhibits are designed to illustrate the effects
that national parks have had on the culture, social life, and political life of Americans.
NOW ON VIEW
Weird, Wild & Wonderful
Ends August 23, 2015
Weekends only
Brody Botanical Center, Flora-Legium
The eccentric beauty of the plant kingdom is celebrated in this traveling exhibition 47
contemporary botanical illustrations by artists from Australia, Canada, India, Japan, the United
Kingdom, and the United States.
Velvet Paintings
Ends September 7, 2015
Huntington Art Gallery, focus room, 2nd floor
This exhibition features nine 18th-century pastels from The Huntington’s holdings, which have
not been on public view for nearly a decade. Still-sparkling works by masters of the medium
such as Rosalba Carriera, Francis Cotes, and William Hoare, brilliantly demonstrate why the late
17th-century French art theorist Roger de Piles called pastel “the most commodious type of
painting.”
Between Modernism & Tradition
Ends September 21, 2015
Huntington Art Gallery, West Wing, 2nd floor
Early 20th-century modernism in Britain drew its inspiration from avant-garde art movements in
France, Germany, and Italy, the best known of which was Vorticism, a dynamic style of jarring
colors and bold lines that embraced modernity and the machine age. This exhibition of about two
dozen drawings, watercolors, and prints, drawn from The Huntington’s collections, explores the
great range of artistic styles employed by British artists through a period of dramatic social
upheaval and change.
Magna Carta
Ends October 12, 2015
Library, West Hall

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Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, this exhibition explores the language and
ideology of constitutionalism and the rule of law. While the cornerstone of the exhibition is The
Huntington's 13th-century draft of the Magna Carta, the themes move beyond Medieval England
to explore the relevance of Magna Carta to later English history, the history of the United States,
and the modern world, drawn from the Huntington’s collections.
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