Los Angeles–area cultural institution The Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced gifts to its art collection funded by The Huntington’s Art Collectors’ Council. Each year, the Council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators.
This year’s acquisitions include a view of London by 17th-century Dutch artist Thomas Wijck; an 1872 bust of a Black woman bound by ropes by French sculptor and abolitionist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux; an early work by feminist artist Judy Chicago; a late 19th-century landscape by African-American painter, surveyor, and lithographer Grafton Tyler Brown; a scroll by Chinese painter Zhao Yuan from the early 1800s; and a tapestry by contemporary Kashmiri-British artist Raqib Shaw.
The gifts join those made to the institution earlier in 2025 by Deborah Last and the Jay and Deborah Last Collections. Among them are sculptures by Henry Moore, Jacques Lipshitz, and Harry Bertoia; prints by Frank Stella and Andy Warhol; and 19th- and early 20th-century works on paper by Americans James McNeill Whistler, Henry Farrer, and John Sloan.
Additionally, Huntington trustee Mei-Lee Ney has donated eight works by Cuban-born American artist Enrique Martinez Celaya—the Huntington’s first visual arts fellow—to the museum, adding to its existing collection of pieces by the artist. Spanning 25 years of Celaya’s career, the gift includes paintings, sculpture, mixed media, drawing, and photography.
Below are five works donated to The Huntington by its Art Collectors’ Council.
