A special exhibition, on view now through December, visitors are able to follow and explore the California landscape that shaped Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1880 honeymoon on Mount St. Helena. Taking its title from the opening pages of The Silverado Squatters, the exhibition guides visitors through nine nineteenth-century paintings across three locations: Mount St. Helena, Monterey, and Mount Tamalpais, tracing the same California Stevenson himself came to know.

Featuring works by Thomas Hill, Virgil Williams, William Keith, Joseph Dwight Strong, Lorenzo P. Latimer, and William Adam, the exhibition includes a rare loan connecting directly to Stevenson’s circle: Virgil Williams’s Settlement in the Napa Valley, Near St. Helena, California (1885), on loan from Arader Galleries. Be sure to also ask about the Museum’s own Alphonse Emile Sondag painting of Old Bale Mill, a twentieth-century work held back from the core catalogue, and the story behind why it stands apart!