UCLA provided a listing with pictures of various objects –with valuations – located at the Japanese Garden to the California Garden &Landscape History Society. The firstpage of the listing is shown above. Apparently, the original plan was to removeand perhaps sell all the objects. Now itappears that three objects will be removed and put in the Fowler Museumcollection on campus. Numbers 11, 21,and 22 on the listing (see link below) are definitely to go to Fowler. Numbers 2 and 19 will, for the moment, remainin the garden and might later be removed (maybe to Fowler? – unclear). Certain bonsai plants are apparently going tobe given to heirs of former Regent Carter who donated the garden. Other objects listed will remain in thegarden when it is sold.
There is some reference to photographic or other “documentation”of the garden that would be (may already have been?) undertaken, possiblyarranged by the California Garden & Landscape History Society, before thegarden is sold.
The vagueness in this blog entry is due to incompleteinformation. It is also unclear who thebuyer of the garden might be, what preservation conditions – if any - mightattach to the sale, what the Carter family’s input has been, legalitiessurrounding the original donation of the garden, how much revenue the salemight bring, how the particular uses of the sale proceeds were determined, etc.
Below is the listing with pictures from UCLA. It will appear sideways on your screen. But you can download the file from the linksource.
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