Editing Huntington Library (section)

===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>