Beautiful things: paintings, books, sculptures, photographs, artistic finds.
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The Getty is art, architecture, and gardens at two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu.
If you notice a few more ladybugs in the Getty gardens than usual, it’s because today our awesome garden supervisor, Michael DeHart, released a few hundred spotted friends to munch on pesky aphids.
Happy National Public Gardens Day! A female carpenter bee visiting the pea vines yesterday. She’s California’s largest bee.
He’s best known for his chalk paintings, but in his later work Cy Twombly created intimate, saturated, blurred views of flowers and everyday objects. Tulips were his favorites.
He died in 2011 and would have been 85 today, April 25.
Tulips III no. 2, negative 1985; print 1993, Cy Twombly. Carbon print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © Nicola Del Roscio Foundation
From wildflower lectures to bonsai shows, we’re swimming in plant matter This Week at The H.
image caption: Stella Sherwood Vosburg, (1869–1943) Phacelia campanularia ssp.vasiformis, Desert Bells, Mojave Desert. 1929. Watercolor on paper. Private collection.
Yay, the Huntington, you’re on Tumblr! This desert bluebell is for you.
Advent Calendr | December 11
Vase of Flowers, 1722, Jan van Huysum. The J. Paul Getty Museum
TODAY’S CANDY: A butterfly camouflaged within the bouquet.
SECOND HELPING: A bird’s nest.
Vase of Flowers (with detail of glass vase and artist’s signature), about 1660, Jan Davidsz de Heem. The National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Fund. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
From the artistic bounty of NGA Images.
In Robert Irwin’s Central Garden.
Flowers for you.
Studies of Peonies, Martin Schongauer, about 1472-73. Blooming in Renaissance Drawings from Germany and Switzerland, 1470–1600.
