DON BACHARDY “A Life in Portraits”

Date/Time
Date(s) - 12th Apr 2025 - 4th Aug 2025
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location
The Huntington

Categories

• Exhibitions - Other Artists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIEWING HOURS: Wednesday-Monday from 10a-5p

 

DON BACHARDY A Life in Portraits, a retrospective exhibition on the prolific Los Angeles artist, will feature more than 100 works of art and archival materials spanning over 70 years.

 

Don Bachardy (b. 1934) is known for creating distinctive portraits of generations of artistic, literary, and film personalities. The exhibition will include more than 100 graphite and acrylic works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited, as well as contextualizing archival materials including letters and photographs. The portraits and archival materials are drawn from Bachardy’s archive at The Huntington, select loans from private collections, and Christopher Isherwood’s papers, which Bachardy placed at The Huntington in 1999. The exhibition is curated by Dennis Carr, Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington, and Karla Nielsen, senior curator of literary collections at The Huntington, with guest curator Gregory Evans. The Huntington will publish an illustrated catalog with essays to accompany the exhibition.