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• "California through four centuries", by J.C. Parish: p.3-4.

Gainsborough's Blue Boy is just one of the masterpieces contained in the Huntington Galleries-the first public collection of Old Master art in Southern California and among the most important collections of British Grand Manner portraits anywhere. Over one hundred of the most impressive works housed at The Huntington, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and works on paper, are published together for the first time in this handsome catalog. Ranging widely, these works are presented in a dynamic format that juxtaposes medium, style and cultural origin. The result is a visually stunning selection of European masterpieces that will serve as both a guide to the Huntington Galleries and an enlightening compendium for anyone interested in European art. Published in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
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One of the world's great cultural, research and educational centres, The Huntington, located in San Marino, California and best known for its renowned collection of British and European art, is home to an astonishing library, art collection and botanical gardens. Until now, no book has been dedicated to featuring the institution's important - and insufficiently known - collection of American art from Copley to Warhol. Coinciding with the American gallery's thirtieth anniversary, this book, with a design both innovative and beautiful, features full-page reproductions of one hundred-plus paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, drawings, prints and photographs. Accompanied by thoughtful historical and contextual essays, American Made celebrates a collection that began with a gift of fifty master paintings but that now includes over 12,000 objects, making The Huntington one of the best repositories of American art in the country.
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• American prints and the Huntington art collections / by Jessica Todd Smith
• Envisioning the city
• The mood and atmosphere of the city
• Public life and entertainment in the city
• Public transportation and labor
• Getting by in hard times
• Intimate moments and small town life
• Farms and farming
• Desperation and flight
• The California landscape
• World War II
• Prints as illustrations and advertising.

This volume chronicles the development of printmaking in America through the first half of the twentieth century. During this period of dramatic social and cultural change, printmaking served artists as a cost-effective means of communicating their observations and ideas. Woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs - many illustrated here - by artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, and Grant Wood addressed a variety of themes, including urbanization, small-town life, the Great Depression, the California landscape, and the two World Wars.The skyscraper, for instance, became a prime subject, admired for its roots in American architecture as well as its associations with national power. Prints frequently portrayed the city's inhabitants, often in crowded spaces where the distinctions between public and private life might become uncomfortably blurred. Depictions of the Depression of the 1930's suggest pessimism about the prospects for social justice in a capitalistic economy. Other prints demonstrate a heroic conception of industry and an idealized view of life in the nation's agrarian heartland.
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Some of the most famous British paintings in the world are to be found at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The Huntington Collection, begun by railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington in 1908, today holds over 170 portraits and landscapes that include such icons of British art as Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, Joshua Reynolds's Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, and John Constable's View on the Stour near Dedham. This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the Huntington paintings is the first full-length catalogue of the collection in 65 years, as well as the first to examine the circumstances of Henry Huntington's art acquisitions and his fascinating dealings with art dealer Joseph Duveen. This book abounds with new interpretations and information about the paintings in the Huntington Collection. In addition to standard catalogue information, the volume includes substantive biographies of the portrait sitters, full interpretive discussions of the 120 most important paintings in the collection, and detailed assessments of the paintings' physical condition and development. A revealing introductory essay draws on unpublished correspondence and internal records to show how value, both aesthetic and monetary, was established for eighteenth-century British art in the early twentieth century. This extensively researched catalogue provides an introduction to the methods, meanings, and reception of British art.
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This introduction to the treasures of the Huntington features a section on the early history of the residence and its owners and a calendar of colour in the gardens.
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This subject-access guide describes the mostly nineteenth-century collections relating to real estate, agriculture, and commerce and such industries as mining and oil.
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This subject-access guide describes the mostly nineteenth-century collections relating to real estate, agriculture, and commerce and such industries as mining and oil.
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Two volumes. This catalogue describes nearly 400 of the Huntington's medieval and renaissance manuscripts in Latin script, and includes detailed identification and analysis of textual contents.
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The Huntington art collections are famous for having a large group of eighteenth-century British portraits. Other art objects of the same period have been assembled around these paintings, particularly drawings and watercolors, French paintings, French and English sculpture, tapestries, furniture, porcelain, and silver. This handbook is a listing of these works of art, and all others in the Huntington collections as of 1986.
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A complete catalogue of William Blake's work from the comprehensive collections of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Compiled by a leading Blake scholar, this volume covers the artist's entire oeuvre: his pencil sketches, watercolor drawings, tempera paintings, illustrated and illuminated books, and printed writings.
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The Huntington collection of British art includes not only the unrivaled full-length, life-size portrait paintings, but also many examples of the less familiar, more informal, but charming side of British portraiture - the drawings. In this book, twenty-five of these drawings are reproduced, each accompanied by a facing page of commentary. There are works in pencil, pen, wash, pastel, watercolor, and various combinations thereof. Some are presentation works intended to fill a more private and intimate function than the life-scale portraits in oil. Some are preparatory studies for works of art. Some are casual sketches made for the artist's own enjoyment or as a record of a memorable face. The drawings are representative examples of the work of twenty-five artists. They range in date from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth and vary enormously in style and purpose. They include 'plumbagos', miniatures in pencil done by the masters of the form, Loggan and Forster; drawings done in pencil and wash by Cosway, Lawrence, and Harlow; drawings by Greenhill and Gardner; and, drawings used as preliminary studies for portraits to be done in oils by Ramsay, Fuseli, and Mortimer. Together with Wark's text, they demonstrate the quality of British achievement, the variety in types, and the fascinating complexity in appeal.
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The guide surveys the half million British historical manuscripts in the Huntington collections, which range from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. Included are full summaries of the four major archival collections: the Battle Abbey, the Ellesmere, the Hastings, and the Stowe.
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