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==Art collections==
The Huntington's collections are displayed in permanent installations housed in the Huntington Art Gallery and Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art. Special temporary exhibitions are mounted in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery, with smaller, focused exhibitions displayed in the Works on Paper Room in the Huntington Art Gallery and the Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing of the Scott Galleries. In addition the gallery also hosts different exhibitions of photography throughout the year including those about different social and political subjects.

===European art===
[[File:The Blue Boy.jpg|thumb|''[[The Blue Boy]]'' by [[Thomas Gainsborough]], c.&nbsp;1770]]
[[File:Pinkie detailed.jpg|thumb|''[[Pinkie (Lawrence painting)|Pinkie]]'' by [[Thomas Lawrence]], c.&nbsp;1794]]
[[File:Constable, View on the Stour near Dedham.jpg|thumb|''[[View on the Stour near Dedham]]'' by [[John Constable]], 1822]]
The European collection, consisting largely of 18th- and 19th-century British & French paintings, sculptures and decorative arts, is housed in The Huntington Art Gallery, the original Huntington residence. The permanent installation also includes selections from the Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection, which contains [[Italian Renaissance|Italian]] and [[Northern Renaissance]] paintings and a spectacular collection of 18th-century French [[Tapestry|tapestries]], porcelain, and furniture. Some of the best known works in the European collection include ''[[The Blue Boy]]'' by [[Thomas Gainsborough]], ''[[Pinkie (Lawrence painting)|Pinkie]]'' by [[Thomas Lawrence]], and ''[[Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child|Madonna and Child]]'' by [[Rogier van der Weyden]].

===American art===
Complementing the European collections is the Huntington's American art holdings, a collection of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and photographs dating from the 17th to the mid-20th century. The institution did not begin collecting American art until 1979, when it received a gift of 50 paintings from the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation. Consequently, The Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art was established in 1984. In 2009, the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries were expanded, refurbished, and reinstalled. The new showcase, a $1.6 million project designed to give the Huntington's growing American art collection more space and visibility, combines the original, 1984 American gallery with the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery, a modern classical addition designed by Los Angeles architect [[Frederick Fisher (architect)|Frederick Fisher]].<ref name="latimes.com">{{cite news|first=Suzanne|last=Muchnic|date=May 30, 2009|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-huntington30-2009may30,0,1251148.story|title=American art gets a higher profile in U.S. museums|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205153731/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-huntington30-2009may30,0,1251148.story |archive-date=2012-12-05|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Highlights among the American art collections include ''Breakfast in Bed'' by [[Mary Cassatt]], ''The Long Leg'' by [[Edward Hopper]], ''Small Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle)'' by [[Andy Warhol]], and ''Global Loft (Spread)'' by [[Robert Rauschenberg]]. As of 2014, the collection numbers some 12,000 works, ninety percent of them drawings, photographs and prints.<ref>{{cite news|first=Christopher|last=Knight|date=July 19, 2014|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-knight-huntington-review-20140720-column.html|title=Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=2014-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720133345/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-knight-huntington-review-20140720-column.html|archive-date=2014-07-20|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2014, the library acquired the [[Millard Sheets]] mural ''Southern California landscape'' (1934), the dining room wall painting originally painted for homeowners Fred H. and Bessie Ranke in the [[Hollywood Hills]] of Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|first=Karen|last=Wada|url=http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2014/11/millard_sheets_mural_moving_to.php|title=Millard Sheets mural moving to the Huntington|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105182800/http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2014/11/millard_sheets_mural_moving_to.php |archive-date=2014-11-05|website=LA Observed|date=November 4, 2014}}</ref>

===Acquisitions===
In 1999, the Huntington acquired the collection of materials relating to Arts and Crafts artist and designer [[William Morris]] amassed by Sanford and Helen Berger, comprising stained glass, wallpaper, textiles, embroidery, drawings, ceramics, more than 2,000 books, original [[Woodblock printing|woodblock prints]], and the complete archives of Morris's decorative arts firm [[Morris & Co.]] and its predecessor [[Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.]] These materials formed the foundation for the 2002 exhibit "William Morris: Creating the Useful and the Beautiful".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-16 |title=William Morris Exhibition |url=http://www.huntington.org/ArtDiv/morris.html |access-date=2024-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416232041/http://www.huntington.org/ArtDiv/morris.html |archive-date=April 16, 2008 }}</ref>

In 2005, actor [[Steve Martin]] gave $1 million to the Huntington to support exhibitions and acquisitions of American art, with three-quarters of the money to be spent on exhibitions and the rest on purchases of artworks.<ref>{{cite news|first=Suzanne|last=Muchnic|date=February 8, 2005|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-08-et-quick8.4-story.html|title=Huntington gets arts endowment|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016103115/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/08/entertainment/et-quick8.4 |archive-date=2012-10-16|url-status=live|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> In 2009, [[Andy Warhol]]'s painting ''Small Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle)'' (1962) as well as group of the artist's ''Brillo Boxes'' were donated by the estate of Robert Shapazian, the founding director of [[Gagosian Gallery]] in Beverly Hills.<ref>[http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=8506 Pop Art Comes to The Huntington] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021082231/http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=8506 |date=2011-10-21 }} The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.</ref> In 2011, a $1.75 million acquisition fund for post-1945 American art was established by unidentified patrons in honor of the late Shapazian. The first purchase from the fund was the painting ''Global Loft (Spread)'' (1979) by [[Robert Rauschenberg]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Jori|last=Finkel|date=June 7, 2012|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-huntington-buys-a-rauschenberg-spread-painting-20120607,0,1128813.story|title=Huntington buys a Robert Rauschenberg Spread painting|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611143130/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-huntington-buys-a-rauschenberg-spread-painting-20120607,0,1128813.story |archive-date=2012-06-11|url-status=dead|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

In 2012, the museum acquired its first major work by an African-American artist when it purchased a 22-foot-long carved redwood panel from 1937 by sculptor [[Sargent Claude Johnson]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Carol|last=Pogash|date=February 20, 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/design/art-by-sargent-johnson-berkeleys-loss-is-museums-gain.html?_r=0|title=Berkeley's Artwork Loss Is a Museum's Gain|newspaper=[[New York Times]]}}</ref>

In October 2023, the museum unveiled a 320-year-old, {{convert|3000|ft2|m2}} Japanese home once owned by a ''shōya'' (village head). From 2018 to 2023, craftspeople carefully disassembled the house, labeled, cleaned, and repaired each part, reassembled the house in a Japanese warehouse, refitted the house to US building codes, disassembled it again, and reassembled it in California. Curator Robert Hori likened the whole process to building a "giant model airplane."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Drueding |first1=Meghan |title=On the Move: How an International Team Moved a Historic Japanese House to the United States |url=https://savingplaces.org/stories/how-an-international-team-moved-a-historic-japanese-house-to-the-united-states |magazine=Preservation Magazine |date=Winter 2024}}</ref>