Saturday, December 8, 2012

Hollenbeck Park

This was painted last Saturday in Hollenbeck Park.  It was my first visit to Hollenbeck Park, but the park was highly recommended by two other painters, and I trust painters' instincts.  Possibly not about everything, but definitely about the visual value of locations.  It is an excellent park.  It has great old structures; it's fabulously hilly, and it has this long narrow pond that attracts tons of water birds.  There were many dogs at the park last week too, in part because there was a dog vaccine event.  

Hollenbeck Park is named for John Edward Hollenbeck.  Hollenbeck made his fortune in Nicaragua in a prior century, and speculated in land in East Los Angeles.  He was briefly a City Council member.  Other important things in East Los Angeles are also named for Hollenbeck:  a division of the Los Angeles Police Department, a middle school, and very good burrito.

12 comments:

  1. Where is the Hollenbeck burrito? Mr H is buried in East LA too. When I used to live at my studio, I visited this park often. Now the studio is much further south with zero parks nearby.

    Like the bit of rain you caught in the cloud

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    1. Manuel's El Tepeyac. You must know it.
      Is he buried at Evergreen Cemetery? It looks like a pretty interesting cemetery.

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    2. To move your studio where no parks are around must mean the new studio was quite a place! I hope.

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    3. no - it's ugly and you can smell dead animals (near Bandini road)

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    4. I did a post - not on the park but Evergreen

      http://pasadenaadjacent.com/2012/01/15/showmans-rest/#comments

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  2. Wonderful painting that captures the feel of the park!

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    1. Thanks Sherry. I think we'll have to go back and see it on a sunny day.

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  3. I love the vastness created in this work Barbara, love its feel!

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  4. beautifully done barbara! i can hear the water splashing in the fountain!

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  5. That lovely path leads the eye right into this beautiful painting, Barbara!

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  6. Hollenbeck has always 1st reminded me of the LAPD. Now it may start to recall other more pleasants things.

    I seem to recall, Barbara, you painted LA Citi Hall. Have u done the Times bldg across the st?

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    1. No I haven't. It's a good idea. I'm pretty taken with the Times Building.

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