In the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens' art collection, Thomas Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy," far right, is a visitor favorite. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) The Huntington ...
11:10 a.m. Dec. 15, 2022: An earlier version of this article referenced the 1969 Watts Rebellion. The uprising took place in 1965. Also, Stephen M. Tomaske was a librarian at Cal State L.A., not UCLA, ...
So it seems that railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington and his wife, Arabella, were basically hoarders. And I mean that in the best sense of the word. Way back in the day — during the so-called Gilded ...
The Huntington Library is renowned for several iconic pieces — the Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript and Shakespeare’s Folio, to name just a few. Visitors expect to see them ...
Even a born mogul with an expansive view of a future Southern California such as Henry Huntington could never have imagined what opening his library and galleries to the public would look like, 100 ...
Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy,” Thomas Lawrence’s “Pinkie,” landscapes by Constable and Turner: British art from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries will always be a hallmark of the Huntington Library, Art ...
Donors and members of the media were given a sneak preview of makeover underway at the The Huntington Library, Arts Collection and Botanical Gardens’s Chinese Garden. Construction on this phase began ...
A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington. Building on Henry E. Huntington’s legacy of renowned collections and botanical gardens that enrich the ...