When LA city officials balked at Lummis’s plan to build the Museum on Mt. Washington, he took them up here, probably on a day like this, and showed them the view. “The Museum will be like the Alhambra,” Lummis told them, “and there are the Sierra Nevada.” He meant Mt. Baldy, which can reliably stand in for the Snowy Mountains that hover over old Granada. The officials gasped, and paid.
Bird Facing Left on Flowering Twig, The Barnes Foundation
Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 17, South Wall
Medium: Water-based paint with graphite underdrawing on wove paper
Bird facing left – how beautiful.
A snowy egret lords over the rushes at the south end of Echo Park Lake.
A green heron, slyly camouflaged, perfectly balanced, and motionless as a statue, patrols the lotus pads on Echo Park Lake. Bird facing left on flowering twig.
The Valley Village View 