California Photo - Art at The Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture Near Sacramento, California

Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture Park is a 52-acre, private art installation near the town of Burson, east of Stockton in California's rolling Sierra foothills. The ranch was purchased by Stockton veterinarian Kresimir Luckars, a self-taught sculptor and metal artist, and mosaic artist Denise Mayfield. Together, they begin to dot the property with outdoor art and eventually invited others to display their work there as well. The ranch hosts a number of exhibitions, and the number of pieces displayed throughout the property continues to grow. Art is Bathing Beauty by Cindy Wilson.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.