Getty Museum, 1

We proceeded on to Oceanside (north of San Diego) and a visit with Vicki's brother Bob and his wife Beth. This included, of course, a drive across LA, the traffic density and velocity of which were, um, interesting. After dark, an accident near San Capistrano caused a total stoppage of the interstate and a delay of two hours. Welcome to southern California. We stayed a couple nights with Bob and Beth, but spent the middle day taking the Amtrak back to LA, and, via an assortment of buses and Uber/Lyfts, visited the Getty Museum, which has long been high on our list of desired museum sights, although for somewhat obscure reasons: a) it's a museum of some architectural/collections note, and b) in 1992, I was a finalist there for the position of assistant to the president (or something like that). I still chiefly remember dropping the Foundations Directory at the SMU library, stunned upon reading that the Getty endowment was then $4 billion. "Billion" was a term not often heard in 1992. Eventually, after two visits, there were internal realignments, the search was canceled, and I stayed at SMU another three years. Among life's many twists and turns and dead-ends. It was my one and only experience, as a searchee, with a search firm. 

Amtrak view en route

Arrival in LA

So the Getty is up on a hill on the west side, near UCLA, and it 
affords some views of the city; we eschewed the Getty Villa, preferring
to see our classical art in Rome and Athens, etc. 

The museum campus consists of 6-7 large travertine-clad buildings,
housing not merely the museum collection, but also the administration,
Getty photos/archives, and its extensive research activities; all attractively
landscaped and dotted with sculpture; all built in the last 20 years or so

Turner's Modern Rome--Campo Vaccino, 1839

Delacroix' Moroccan Horseman Crossing a Ford, 1850

Turner's Van Tromp..., 1844; Turner was not into the whole brevity
thing...

Goya's Bullfight, 1824

Millet's Man with a Hoe, 1860

Manet's Portrait of Madame Brunet, 1862

Courbet's Grotto of Sarrazine..., 1864

Degas' After the Bath, 1895

Berthe Morisot, The Shuttlecock, 1888

Renoir, Portrait of Albert Cahen d'Anvers, 1881

Manet, The Rue Mosnier with Flags, 1878

van Gogh, Irises, 1889

Monet, Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning, 1891

Monet, The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light, 1894

Munch, Starry Night, 1893

Among sculptures in the various courtyards...Magritte's
La Folie de Grandeurs

Interesting landscaping