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\n\tLos Angeles\u2013area cultural institution the Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced this year\u2019s gifts to its art collection from the Huntington\u2019s Art Collectors\u2019 Council. Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum\u2019s curators.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe five 2026 Art Collectors\u2019 Council acquisitions span the 16th to the 21st centuries and encompass a range of media. The gifts build on the museum\u2019s existing holdings while creating connections with its library and garden.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe oldest artwork is a 16th-century majolica plate made in Deruta, Italy, a leading center of majolica ceramics since the Renaissance. One of only 10 known Deruta dishes bearing verses by the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, it complements the library\u2019s rare editions of the poet\u2019s works.<\/p>\n
\n\tAlso included in the gift is a hanging scroll created by the Chinese painter Zhang Chenglong at the turn of the 17th century. This nearly 10-foot-high work depicts Mount Tai, one of China\u2019s Five Great Mountains, and leads the viewer\u2019s eye along the pilgrimage routes to the mountain\u2019s summit. Traditional landscape paintings such as this one inspired the Huntington\u2019s own Chinese Garden, and the scroll will be the centerpiece of planned exhibition of Chinese garden paintings in 2029.<\/p>\n
\n\tCreated around 1620, a still life by Jan Breughel the Elder\u2014son of Flemish Renaissance painter Peter Breughel the Elder\u2014is the first European floral still life to enter the Huntington\u2019s collection. Featuring a circlet of flowers along with a collection of imported luxuries such as a string of pearls and a Japanese lacquer box, it has a clear connection to the institution\u2019s famed botanical garden.<\/p>\n
\n\tFrom the 20th century is a 1933 copper and gilt sculpture by California modernist artist Sargent Claude Johnson. Based on West African traditional masks, it is one of Johnson\u2019s many works celebrating Black American life and beauty. It will join two pieces by Johnson already in the Huntington\u2019s collection, as well as other works of the Harlem Renaissance by Charles White, Romare Bearden, and others. Johnson was the subject of an exhibition at the Huntington in 2024.<\/p>\n
\n\tA contemporary artwork, Raqib Shaw\u2019s Space Between Dreams \u2013The Pragmatic Pessimist<\/em> (2022\u201323), depicts the Kashmiri British artist in a vast frozen landscape, burning books for warmth. Drawing in part on Mughal miniature painting, it was also inspired by the Huntington\u2019s collection of 18th-century Beauvais tapestries. The gift reunites it with its companion piece, Space Between Dreams \u2013The Perseverant Prophet<\/em>, acquired by the Huntington in 2025.<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to the works acquired through the Art Collectors\u2019 Council, the Huntington received additional important gifts this year, among them a version of Robert Indiana\u2019s iconic LOVE<\/em> sculpture, a group of watercolors by American modernists such as Joseph Stella and John Marin, and a pair of photograms by Abstract Expressionist artist Theodore Roszak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/huntington-2026-acquisitions-raqib-shaw-robert-indiana-1234802620\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/A2026-7.jpg?w=1024″] Los Angeles\u2013area cultural institution the Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced this year\u2019s gifts to its art collection from the Huntington\u2019s Art Collectors\u2019 Council. Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum\u2019s curators. The five 2026 Art Collectors\u2019 Council acquisitions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2203584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}