Check out today’s mystery, a field and fountain, plus wheat appears as an abbey in the background. See if you can determine where this photograph was made. Send your answer and your hometown to ebrack2@gmail.com.
Sara Rawlins of Lawrenceville correctly identified the last mystery: “It’s from Getty Center in Los Angeles, Calif. It was constructed in 1997 by Abstract Artist Robert Irwin. The garden measures 134,000 square feet. The artist wanted everyone who came to the garden to realize this is a living work of art, forever changing. Robert Irwin was born in 1928 and passed away in 2023. He began his artistic career as a painter. But later became an installation artist using fluorescent lights as his medium. In the 1970s, he used light and space to push the boundaries of perception and art.” The photograph came from Paige Havens of Hoschton.
Also recognizing this photo were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Tim Sullivan, Mulberry; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas.
Peel added: “The Central Garden, a juxtaposition of a botanical landscape and an elaborate piece of art, and one of the first things you will see as you pass through the arrival plaza of the Getty Center atop the Santa Monica Mountains, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Calif. The Getty Museum was founded by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), who was born in Minneapolis, moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was a teenager in 1910, started his road to wealth via oil leasing ventures in Oklahoma, and became a millionaire by 1916.
“When the Getty Center first opened in 1997, it included the Central Garden, sometimes referred to as “The Flowering Maze,” that is featured in today’s mystery photo. It was designed by artist Robert Irwin (1928–2023), who envisioned it as “a sculpture in the form of a garden, which aims to be art.”
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