Golden Gate Park! Congrats!

Are you in California?

CT Yankee, thanks for posting. They are all beautiful.

Wild guess.

Right?

But I've seen it on PBS. It's unmistakable. Old elevated train, reclaimed as a park. A truly wonderful idea.

Yippee! I got one!

interest of landscape design. Marvelous way of rethinking the elevated railway of NYC. As a park!

That was an old freight rail line that once stretched almost all the way to the tip of Manhattan.

Perhaps I should say....
I find it interesting!

Others may find it to be completely worthless info.

PHEW

Wonderful acres of woods and gardens in Massachusetts. And the house has ghosts, ha!

books on landscape design, in addition to her novels.

Places I'd like to spend an afternoon at. I'll accept the order you suggested to visit them

Lin of course was the Yale student who won the award of designing the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. She was villified for it until it caught on with the people who loved it and today it is much appreciated. I lived in Washington at the time and remember well the controversy.

She also designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, among other notable works.



I've only seen two of her works in person. I have her book, Boundaries, which I heartily recommend.

My niece lives down in Vancouver, that's a gotta-see landmark, for sure. I guess it's time for a family visit.

I'm not getting anywhere on that one. Maybe someone else will have better luck...

Winterthur. It's quite famous....

There just didn't seem to be any way. The closest I could get was late 19th century, east of the Appalachians, and somewhat mid-Atlantic. I'd given up. Good one.

And well done CTyankee. I couldn't figure out how you would manage the topic without making it too easy or too hard, but next time, just for pinboy3niner, you'll have to post one challenge with only ten pixels. Hell, he'll still find it.

I had given up, too, after all my searches went nowhere. But, as usual with a tough CTyankee Challenge, the unsolved mystery continued to nag at me until I eventually had to try again.

The unique thing about the scene was the horse statue in the water, and the search that worked was laughably simple: "horse statue in garden pool." That led to a photo on flickr that was a close-up shot of the horse, with enough of the decking and pool sides shown to indicate that it was a match. The only information posted with the photo was the caption "Winterthur Seahorse?" but the name was enough to search on.

Shoulda known; the truth is always in the details, not the abstractions.

I thought about the horse, but had thought of it in mythical or iconic terms and couldn't place it. Otherwise, my too vague searches turned up uncountable hydrangea gardens on the east coast, many of them very nice. I hope to visit all of them someday.

As usual, the Challenge is a good eye tune-up, and there's always next week.

right now I have no Challenge on tap for Friday after next, but who knows what I'll come up with? I have to wait for inspiration, but since I do a ton of art history research and reading, I eventually find something that intrigues me...

...cold turkey?

myself! I did google "horse statue in marble pond" but came up empty after looking at two pages of gigantic marble horses; there certainly are a lot of horse statues in existence, ha!

That du Pont Winterthur estate is amazing! Did you check out any pics of the Enchanted Woods? It's like a fairyland garden.


Winterthur Enchanted Garden Cottage

couldn't resist it.

besides that incredible Enchanted Woods, the landscape designs and all of the things that du Pont planted in his gardens, the stuff that guy collected is enough to make me want to visit the museum. I'd never even heard of the place before!

Thank you for this challenge...I think it's a good one!

but I really want to stimulate a conversation once a week about art and design, not see if I can somehow stump people. I particularly like the stories DUers tell me about their experiences with art and how that art history course they took in their college sophomore year as an elective turned out to be an amazing experience and one that they have never forgotten.

I know you're not trying to stump anyone (and I had to kid Pinboy in some fashion), but too much of the culture is too easy, too much on a platter, and time spent really thinking about what you are seeing is always well spent. It should be difficult, right up to the point of discouragement -and your Challenges are never discouraging. For that matter, the most puzzling "I didn't know that" moments are the best.

Art history was one of the few topics I skipped in those years. That was a mistake I've tried to repair. Your Challenges are a regular part of it, so for that I thank you, very much.

You gotta start somewhere. I just went to my local public library and started pulling art books off the shelves, sitting down and reading them. My particular favorite art was from the Early Italian Renaissance. I read 15 books on it over a year and a half, then I went to Florence with my list of "must-sees" and had a helluva adventure. Then I branched out from there. Funny where all this stuff leads...

From the photo url info, I found this:

Newark Earthworks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Earthworks#History

Seip Mound at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
http://trekohio.com/2012/07/27/seip-mound-at-hopewell-culture-national-historical-park/
http://www.touring-ohio.com/southwest/chillicothe/seip-mound.html

I'm guessing that the first would be Serpent Mound in southern Ohio (been there many times) and the second might be one of the mounds in Georgia? The Temple Mound, maybe?