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AND, for the first time in 50 years, we'll be entering a float in the 2020 #RoseParade to mark our centennial year. Check out our last Huntington float in this photo from the 1969 parade!🌹🌹🌹https://t.co/GemcqS97PQ
What does a digital art historian do? Explore the impossible. Working with curator James Glisson, @artdotRIP created a 3D model of this massive organ screen carved by #SargentJohnson, so that students could curate a virtual exhibition with the work. https://t.co/a3eyJPLTiH
Happy birthday to #MaryCassatt, born #OTD in 1844. Cassatt was one of the first American women to receive international recognition as an artist, exhibiting with fellow #Impressionists Edgar #Degas and Claude #Monet. See her work "Breakfast in Bed" on view in the #ScottGalleries.
Thomas #Gainsborough, born #OTD in 1727, kept a certain element "The Blue Boy" secret for more than 200 years. This li'l pup, first revealed in a 1994 X-ray, is what's hidden beneath the painted rocks in the lower right-hand corner of the portrait. #SecretsMW #ProjectBlueBoy
#OTD in 1869, the eastbound and westbound railroad tracks met at Utah's Promontory Summit, marking the completion of the #TranscontinentalRailroad. This engraving was created from a photograph that captured the historic moment. https://t.co/XoGikH8ukb #Transcontinental150
Adding these gorgeous #California native #wildflower blooms by Elizabeth Hallowell (1905) to the #ArchivesInBloom party!
Happy #MayDay! Best known for illustrating children's books, #KateGreenaway used watercolors to create this idyllic "May Day" scene, employing a muted rosy green color scheme to evoke a sense of nostalgia. 💐 https://t.co/VBEBj2kD71
Happy birthday to John James #Audubon, born #OTD in 1785. His most famous work, "The Birds of America," consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints; and includes images of several birds that are now extinct, like the great auk and the passenger pigeon. https://t.co/xOKpHhpA9j
"While celebrating the beauty of the Indian landscape, these images also allude, however indirectly, to the violence that lies at the heart of empire building." Head to Verso for more about "Prospects of India," on view now in the #HuntingtonArtGallery. https://t.co/feW5ylajEX
It's #LoveYourPetDay! And Catherine has been loving on this pup every day for almost 250 years. https://t.co/oKeAKh6538 #GeorgeRomney #HuntingtonArtGallery