The present work depicts the Oriental Japanese Gardens built in 1924 by Adolph Bernheimer, a German-born cotton baron, on a dramatic cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Palisades. The property was a showplace for Japanese horticulture and Bernheimer's private residence there housed his extensive collection of Asian art. The property averaged 5,000 visitors per week until around 1941 when anti-German and Japanese sentiment led to vandalism and a decline in visitors. Bernheimer died in 1944 and by the late 1940s the gardens had slipped into disrepair and were vacated. In 1951 the Asian art and objects were sold at auction and around the same time all of the structures were demolished on the property. Today an apartment complex lies at the west end of the property and the rest of the land remains vacant. Copies of period postcards depicting the residence and land accompany the lot.