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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens is laying off eight employees, including the chief curator of European art, as part of belt-tightening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chief ...