Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits at The Huntington
- LA Art Documents
- Jul 16
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Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits
The Huntington, San Marino, CA
Huntington Art Museum, MaryLou and George Boone Gallery
April 12 - August 4, 2025
“Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits,” a retrospective exhibition on the prolific Los Angeles artist, featuring 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.