City dwellers don't happen across such a pretty place all that often, in Los Angeles, California, or really anywhere else. For sure, parks, with their lush and varied treescapes and bounties of ...

1,225. That’s the number of lush, fruit-bearing olive trees that once populated what’s now Barnsdall Art Park. 463? That’s what’s left. Oil heiress, arts lover and philanthropist Aline Barnsdall ...

They may not be quite as famous as his sunflowers or self-portraits, but Vincent van Gogh’s olive-tree paintings still represent an important entry in his sprawling oeuvre of more than 2,000 works.

Los Angeles’s Barnsdall Art Park, a hilltop city-park-slash-cultural-campus that rises above the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, is best known for its sweeping city views, arts ...