Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens plus "The House That Sam Built"
Join us on Saturday, January 14, 2012, 9:00 - 10:30 AM for a private tour of the exhibit "The House That Sam Built" at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens. Registration includes all-day access to the library, art collection & gardens.
Saturday, January 14th @ 9:00am
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108
The registration fee covers the private tour of the Maloof exhibit and all day access to the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens. The Huntington provides free parking. Wear comfortable shoes. Photography is allowed.
Sam Maloof was one of the premier woodworkers of the mid-, late-20th century and early 21st century, whose rocking chairs graced the White House of Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, and who was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1985. Our private tour of “The House That Sam Built” exhibit in the Boone Gallery will provide a view of 35 pieces of Sam Maloof furniture, on loan from private individuals and institutions, set among over 80 pieces of art produced by the Claremont centered, Pomona Valley community of artists and crafts persons from 1945 to 1985. Artists represented include painters Millard Sheets and Paul Darrow, ceramicists Betty Davenport Ford and Otto and Gertrud Natzler, sculptors Aldo Casanova and John Svenson, enamelists Arthur and Jean Goodwin Ames, woodturner Bob Stocksdale, and weaver Kay Sekimachi,
This exhibit is part of the Pacific Standard Time series initiated by the Getty in which works of Southern California artists from 1945 -1985 are exhibited in over 60 venues throughout the region.
After our before-public-hours tour of the Maloof exhibit, we can explore the Chinese Garden, visit the Library with its Guttenberg Bible, see Pinkie and Blue Boy in the recently renovated Huntington mansion, visit the exhibit “Water Began It All” in the Botanical Center, and learn about the early development of water at the San Gabriel Mission.
Early Bird Cost: $20.00 per person for reservations made by December 29, 2011 or
Cost: $25.00 per person for reservations made between December 30, 2011 and January 11, 2012
Contact: Beverlee Bickmore, beverleeB@earthlink.net
Register for tickets here!