EncyclopediaStorm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center, sculpture park and museum located in Mountainville, Orange co., SE N.Y., some 55 mi (89 km) north of New York City. Founded in 1960, it is comprised of 500 acres (202 hectares) of lawns, fields, hills, and forests, which provide a unique backdrop for sculpture, and a Norman-style museum (1935). The center has a large permanent collection of sculpture, much of it displayed on the grounds. Its holdings were mainly created after 1960 and are often monumental in scale and predominantly abstract. The core of the collection is a group of 13 large works by David Smith. Among the other notable works in the collection are those by Barbara Hepworth, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Mark di Suvero, Richard Serra, George Ricky, and Kenneth Snelson. Open from April to November, the center holds annual special exhibitions.
See J. Beardsley, A Landscape for Modern Sculpture (rev. ed. 1996)
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