Beyond NYC: Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley
Modern Sculptures on a breathtaking vastness of the Hudson Valley rolling hills.
The Center is open for scheduled visits and online from anywhere.
Overlooking 500 acres of continuous grounds, Storm King Art Center is a paradise for art and nature lovers. The sculpture park, which had been opened in 1960 and from the mid-1970s started focusing on the large-scale sculptures by contemporary artists has the works of such modern masters as Alexander Calder, David Smith, Mark di Suvero, Henry Moore, Douglas Abdell, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, Louise Kevelson, and many others.
Plan your visit by booking your time-entry tickets. Or explore the art center collection online. You can scroll through an exhaustive list of large sculpture masters who have their art shown at the center.
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Only one hour drive north from New York City, the picturesque vistas of grass fields lined up with the shady wooded areas and interspersed with abstract sculptures organically fitted in the landscape make an unforgettable impression on any day of the year. It’s a fun place to visit for the whole family as you can climb and play with some of the artworks or participate in one of the educational programs offered by the center. Whether you will just stroll and observe, or methodically walk around to see every sculpture of more than 120 objects on view, you will be touched by the sheer vastness of space, imagination, and creativity that the Storm King Art Center presents to every visitor.
The land occupied by Storm King center was purchased by Ralph E. Ogden in 1958 and from 1960 was opened to the public to exhibit small sculptures acquired in Europe. With an acquisition in 1967 of several sculptures from an American abstract sculptor and painter David Smith, the collection was firmly established. From about that time, the Center moved to permanently exhibit large contemporary abstract sculptures. The Center’s name takes its cues from the Storm King Mountain nearby overlooking Hudson River.
Storm King is credited for saving and presenting 5 monumental works by Mark di Suvero after they were disassembled for storage at the closing of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. They are now installed on the Southern fields and are clearly visible from afar. The structures make themselves a perfect match for the fields so much so that the viewer sees the fields as a whole without differentiation between nature and art.
The Sculpture Park is roughly divided into four sections with Museum Hill in the elevated center around the museum building, North Woods, Meadows, and South Fields adjacent to it streaming down the valley. There is certainly a continuum in the selection of works displayed in each section. New sculptures designed specifically for the Center are fitted right in. Elsewhere the landscape gets genuinely molded to create a perfect setting for the art pieces. The aesthetic impression only gets deeper and fully complete.
Get ready to stroll around, ponder on the intricacies of design and the meaning of the titles, appreciate the stillness of nature and originality of the artists and designers. You are in for a fulfilling day of wonder!
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Venue: Storm King Art Center, 1 Museum Rd, New Windsor, NY 12553
Exploring other Hudson Valley treasures? Stop by Dia: Beacon, Vanderbilt Mansion or Staatsburgh State Historic Site on the other side of the river from Storm King Art Center.
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