Frances Brody's gift to Huntington: over $100 million

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens has gotten the good word from the estate of L.A. art patron Frances Brody. At more than $100 million, "this represents by far the largest cash gift in the history of the Huntington, which was previously $21 million from Charles and Nancy Munger in 2002," Jori Finkel reports at the L.A. Times website. "It could even surpass the original endowment created when railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington died in 1927, which is roughly $107 million if adjusted for inflation."

Previously on LA Observed: Inside the Brody mansion in Holmby Hills