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News Release - "The Blue Boy” Is Reinstalled After Major Conservation Project
Thu., Sept. 10, 2020
Introducing New Fellows in an Unprecedented Time
Thu., Sept. 10, 2020
The Blue Boy Returns
Wed., Sept. 9, 2020One of the most famous works at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, has been restored and reinstalled in the Thornton Portrait Gallery. This major conservation undertaking involved high-tech data gathering and analysis as well as more than 500 hours of expert conservation work to remove old overpaint and varnish, repair structural materials, and inpaint areas of loss.
Hidden Within “The Three Witches”
Wed., Sept. 9, 2020 | Christina M. O’Connell
Big Creek and the Creek Fire
Tue., Sept. 8, 2020 | William Deverell
Hdoc: Tigers in the Greenhouse
Fri., Sept. 4, 2020In the summer of 1999, The Huntington was the focus of world-wide attention when it exhibited the first Amorphophallus titanum ever to bloom in California. That first bloom started our cultivation of this strange plant. We now have over forty mature “Corpse Flowers” and this is their story.
