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Huntington adds Marsh locomotive painting to American art collection
Once the great estate of a railroad tycoon, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens has just become home to a painting of a powerful locomotive. Last week a group of art collectors helped the Huntington buy a 1935 Reginald Marsh...
Tags: Washington, DC, Arts and Culture
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Inside the Huntington story
"Masterpiece Theatre" has nothing on the real-life, rags-to-riches saga that led to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. This singularly American story of an extraordinary family dynasty...
Tags: Museum of Natural History, Museums, Adultery, Research, Arts
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Former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78
William Wilson, who wrote art criticism for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, died Saturday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 78. Wilson, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, passed away...
Tags: Fine Artists, Museums, The Getty, Obituaries, Alzheimer's Disease
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Hand over the book, Britain, it's the Getty's
When British authorities the other day denied an export license for a 15th-century Flemish manuscript acquired last December by the J. Paul Getty Museum at a London auction, few could have been surprised. Stopping the export of exceptional works of...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Auction Service, Government, United Kingdom
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Frances Brody estate sells for $14.8 million
The Brody Estate in Holmby Hills has sold for $14,888,000. The proceeds from the sale of the A. Quincy Jones house will go to the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino.
In mid-November, the Huntington received a gift...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks, Property, Real Estate Agents, Homes
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Southern California Close-Ups: Pasadena and environs
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Nov. 27, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's 1922, and nothing much is up in Pasadena. Not among the orange groves, not along the leafy streets. Just as the little old ladies like it. But wait. Down in the Arroyo Seco, a...Tags: Museums, Humphrey Bogart, Rose Bowl Flea Market, Chinese Restaurants, Festive Events
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Fortress-like home protects 85-year-old details
George Washington Smith made his name creating Spanish Colonial Revival mansions in Montecito and Santa Barbara from 1917 to 1930, but the Pennsylvania-born architect and painter also left his mark on Beverly Hills, Pasadena and San Marino.
The Osthoff...Tags: Pennsylvania, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), San Marino, Los Angeles, Washington (U.S. state)
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USC and MOCA are in talks about 'a possible partnership'
Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Southern California are in talks about a possible partnership that would link the ambitious private university with the fiscally struggling downtown museum. Responding to Los Angeles Times...
Tags: Museums, University of Southern California, J. Paul Getty Trust, Economy, Business and Finance, World War II (1939-1945)
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Art review: Unearthing a rare treasure at Huntington Library
The San Gabriel Mountains rise to imposing heights behind a tiny rural outpost. An alpine lake in the Sierra lies still in a frame of snowdrifts, rocky peaks and moss-covered stones. A narrow path disappears into a field of yellow flowers stretching...
Tags: Fine Artists, Benjamin West, Norman Rockwell, Painting, John Singleton
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PASSINGS: Richard J. Sheirer, Jiri Raska, Jack Lionel Warner
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NYC emergency official at time of 9/11
Richard J. Sheirer, 65, the former New York City emergency management chief who helped guide the city through the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, died Thursday after experiencing chest pains....Tags: 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Rudy Giuliani, Brooklyn (New York City), Arson, Obituaries
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