Paying Dividends
Once upon a time there was a bank. But it did not look the way a bank does today: It had no drive-through ATMs, no bulletproof shields, and no plate-glass windows with posters touting the latest way to save. Instead, this bank was adorned with mosaics, festooned with brightly colored tiles and intricate patterns. It also had sculptures of towering figures, children celebrating with their communities, and men and women with solemn faces, deeply engaged in their rituals. And it had painted murals, some more than 50 feet long, showing figures more than life-size, engaged in work and play, worship and wonder.
Good Chemistry
Scripps College junior Dinah Parker developed a love for art while restoring antiques at her family’s business. But her best grades were in science, so when it came to choosing a major, she was considering chemistry or pre-med. There was one problem. Science alone didn’t satisfy her artistic passions.
A River Runs Through It
Constable’s six-foot painting View on the Stour near Dedham (1822), one of six celebrated large-scale paintings of his childhood landscape, came to The Huntington in 1925. It hangs in the southwest corner room upstairs in the Huntington Art Gallery, walls painted deep red to best accentuate the work, and I visit this painting—sometimes with my daughters, sometimes alone—many times each year.
