The La Jolla show honors the rarest tree in North America as well as local conservation efforts to protect the reserve from development and climate change
Historical exhibitions often involve years of curatorial work and research. In the case of an exhibition opening this week at the La Jolla Historical Society Wisteria Cottage Gallery, one gets the sense that it’s a showcase that’s been 100 years in the making.
“It became a show about preservation and environmentalism,”Jensen recalls. “That maybe this reserve, at least locally, was the springboard to this notion that we can save these beautiful places for future generations.” Still, initial dates for the anniversary exhibition had to be put on hold due to the pandemic. Jensen, however, almost sees the delay as something of a blessing in disguise for a few reasons. The resulting exhibition, which opens Saturday, now falls on the 100th anniversary of the Torrey Pines Lodge’s opening, rather than its groundbreaking. Also, it afforded Jensen and co-curator John Durant more time to track down various documents and artworks that now make up part of the exhibition.
Local artists, including well-known Alfred Mitchell, sought inspiration in the Torrey Pines Reserve, also a popular destination for plein-air oil-painting classes, as seen in this 1930 photograph. This includes Impressionist landscape paintings from Alfred Mitchell that the artist did while visiting the reserve. It also includes botanical illustrations of pine cones and needle clusters from Albert Robert Valentien and watercolor paintings from James Hubbell, who is probably best known for his home designs, sculpture and stained glass, but who used to frequent the beaches around Torrey Pines.
There will also be vintage and contemporary photographic contributions at “Rare Trees Sacred Canyons.” All of the art, in addition to the extensive research, notebooks and documents presented at the exhibition, help paint a picture of how special Torrey Pines was to early 20th century residents, despite efforts by some to develop it.
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