ARABELLA HUNTINGTON RESEARCH
ABOUT
Marina is a leading researcher in scholarship on the life and collections of art collector and philanthropist Arabella Duval Huntington.
Since 2022, Marina has conducted independent research on the collector, discovering still-unpublished details about Arabella’s life, collections, and legacy. Drawing from archives, public records, and secondary sources, Marina uses 19th- and early 20th-century photographs, journals, correspondence, receipts, menus, drawings, and other ephemera to piece together Arabella’s still-incomplete (and largely untold) story as one of America’s most influential, misunderstood, and least-known Gilded Age collectors.
Marina is considered an unofficial fellow of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library (New York), having spent 3+ years there, combing through material on the Huntington family.
In addition to creative and historical consulting, talks, and other Huntington-related work, Marina is writing a biographical novel based on Arabella’s life.