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Solidarity with the Mount Wilson Observatory
Mon., Sept. 21, 2020 | Kevin Durkin
The Early Modern Global Caribbean: Virtual Conference
Fri., Sept. 18, 2020The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century. This conference explores the regional, Atlantic, and World approaches to the Caribbean, and what they each mean for thinking about the transformations within and beyond the Caribbean between ca. 1500 and 1800.
Hear and Now
Wed., Sept. 16, 2020 | George Sanchez
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.
