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Storm King Art Center, commonly called Storm King and named for nearby Storm King Mountain, is an open-air museum in New Windsor, New York. It contains perhaps the largest collection of contemporary outdoor sculptures in the United States.
Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in New York (state) (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Outdoor sculptures in New York (state)" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
New York physician Ernest Stillman donated the park's initial 800 acres (3.2 km 2) to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission in 1922, hoping to protect land surrounding the Storm King Highway. The park has since grown to its current 1,972-acre (7.98 km 2 ) size through additional donations and purchases of land.
The section of New York State Route 218 that winds around the eastern slope of the mountain overlooking the River Hudson was originally named the Storm King Highway. That name is often used presently for the four-lane section of U.S. Route 9W to the west, with Route 218 referred to as the Old Storm King Highway.
In 2023, Puryear completed Lookout, his first large-scale sculpture made of brick, at Storm King Art Center in New York's Hudson Valley. [13] [14] [15] The artwork is a compound-curved domed shell, pierced by 90 circular apertures of various sizes. Visitors can walk around and into the sculpture, enjoying the views of the surrounding area. [16]
The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated near the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Dia Beacon's facility, the Riggio Galleries, is a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff , and Linda Taalman, then of OpenOffice.
In the summer of 2014, all four multiples were on display in the United States at the following locations: Rothko Chapel, Houston; Red Square, University of Washington, Seattle; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York. Art critic Robert Hughes, writing on Broken Obelisk in 1971, said:
Mountainville: Storm King Art Center; New York City: Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Frick Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Cloisters, Dahesh Museum of Art, Asia Society, Neue Galerie New York, Hispanic Society of America, Museum of the City of New ...