Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The great experiment : George Washington and the American Republic by John H Rhodehamel ( Book )
2 editions published in 1998 in Slave and English and held by 830 libraries worldwide
To most Americans, George Washington is a remote figured encased in myth, more a monument than a man. This book brings him vividly to life once again--a man who was born a loyal subject of the British Crown and became the leader of a radical revolution, a victorious military leader who relinquished the trappings of power to return to farming, a reluctant statesman who forged the institutions of a popular government that have endured for two centuries. The text is enhanced by illustrations that reproduce an array of original documents, contemporary portraits, artifacts, and personal memorabilia of Washington and her family.--From publisher description.

The art of Bloomsbury : Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant by Richard Shone ( Book )
7 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in English and held by 751 libraries worldwide
The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the ideas of Bertrand Russell, A.N. Whitehead, and G.E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and their colleagues was often audacious and experimental, and proved to be one of the key influences on twentieth-century British art and design. This catalogue, published to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery, provides a new look at the visual side of a movement that is more generally known for its literary production. It traces the artists' development over several decades and assesses their contribution to modernism. Catalogue entries on two hundred works, all illustrated in color, bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting--domestic, contemplative, sensuous, and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes set in London, Sussex, and the South of France, as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends--from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell--highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into the works and the changing critical reaction to them, exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury, as well as the movement's wider social, economic, and political background.

The Huntington Library quarterly ( Serial )
in English and held by 745 libraries worldwide

Ho for California! : Women's overland diaries from the Huntington Library ( Book )
6 editions published between 1980 and 2007 in English and held by 739 libraries worldwide

The Butterfield overland mail by Waterman Lilly Ormsby ( Book )
14 editions published between 1942 and 2007 in English and held by 637 libraries worldwide
"This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby's reports, which promptly appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the conveyances, the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed." Book cover.

Edward Weston : a legacy by Edward Weston ( Book )
4 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 619 libraries worldwide
"This is the first major book to celebrate the Huntington's collection of five hundred Edward Weston photographs, all of them selected and printed for the institution by the artist in the 1940s. The Guggenheim photographs lie at the heart of this legacy, but Weston also included in his gift still-life studies from the early 1920s and 1930s, as well as later landscapes from the 1940s. Weston selected these photographs as representative of his best work, and they are reproduced here, complemented by investigations into the influences that shaped them."--BOOK JACKET.

Shakespeare's plays in quarto : a facsimile edition of copies primarily from the Henry E. Huntington Library by William Shakespeare ( Book )
1 edition published in 1981 in English and held by 589 libraries worldwide

The cosmographical glass : Renaissance diagrams of the universe by S. K Heninger ( Book )
1 edition published in 1977 in English and held by 550 libraries worldwide

Guide to American historical manuscripts in the Huntington Library by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery ( Book )
7 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 532 libraries worldwide

Epistle to Bathurst; a critical reading with an edition of the manuscripts by Alexander Pope ( Book )
4 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 469 libraries worldwide