Editing Huntington Library (section)

===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>