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Feb. 23, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
“Gainsborough and the British Landscape Tradition” is a small, focused exhibition that promises more than it delivers.
April 26, 1993
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has commissioned artist Kehinde Wiley to recast Thomas Gainsborough’s 18th century portrait “The Blue Boy.”
Sept. 9, 2021
Travel & Experiences
See how a giraffe (and help from a friend) creates works of art.
May 16, 2017
Huntington Art Museum officials are overruling their own conservation experts’ advice by lending the fragile painting to Britain’s National Gallery.
July 6, 2021
World & Nation
Art thieves made off with three 18th-Century portraits worth more than $3 million from a London legal college, Scotland Yard said today.
Sept. 17, 1990
The Huntington brings a 19th century sensibility to its installation of Gainsborough’s ‘Cottage Door.’
April 24, 2006
There’s a mystery unfolding at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Sept. 14, 2018
Do we really need to be shown that the elegant San Marino mansion built by railroad magnate and financier Henry E.
Dec. 14, 2015
Thomas Gainsborough’s famed “The Blue Boy” may be getting a lot of attention for its restoration at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this fall, but don’t let that distract you from a small yet worthwhile show in the West Hall of the Library.
Sept. 20, 2018