Located on the back side of Storm King Mountain is the largest outdoor sculpture garden in America. Established in 1960 by Ralph Ogden the property included 180 acres. By 1967 Ogden purchased thirteen works by the late sculptor David Smith (1906-1965). At first the sculptures were around the main house, but over time and additions to the property, the foot print expanded to 500 acres, with another 2500 acres preserved on nearby Schenemunk Mountain, best known in an earlier era as the backdrop for Winslow Homer paintings of Houghton Farm, located less than one mile south of Storm King AC
The initial impression from the house is superb
Henry Moore (1898-1986), Reclining Connected Forms, 1969
Lynda Benglis (B. 1941), North South East West, 1988, 2009, 2014, 2015
Alexander Calder, Tripes and Five Swords on a field painted long ago by Hudson River School artist Louis Remy Mignot
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Five Swords, 1976, Calder Foundation
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Tripes 1974, Calder Foundation
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Black Flag, 1974, Calder Foundation
The David Smiths are remarkable. Even more impressive is that at least one is of the painted variety. Once famous art critic Clement Greenberg destroyed his own reputation when handling the Smith estate by sand-blasting paint of the art works
David Smith (1906-1965) pair of sculptures
David Smith (1906-1965), IX Books, III Apples, 1959
David Smith (1906-1965) , Becca, 1964, named after the artists daughter
David Smith (1906-1965), Sitting Printer, 1954-1955
David Smith (1906-1965), Personage of May, 1957
David Smith (1906-1965), Study in Arcs 1957, rare surving painted example by the artist
David Smith (1906-1965) , Portrait of a Lady Painter, 1954-1957
David Smith (1906-1965) , Three Ovals Soar, 1960
David Smith (1906-1965), Portrait of a Lady Painter next to Study in Arcs
David Smith (1906-1965) , Volton XX, 1963. Product of a trip to Italy where Smith welded together almost thirty sculptures in thirty days
David Smith (1906-1965) signed in liquid metal, 1963
Max Bill (1908-1994, Unit of Three Equal Elements, 1965
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), Momo Taro, 1977
Kadishman's Suspended, see it to believe it
Manashe Kadishman B.1932), Suspended, 1977
George Rickey (1907-2002), Five Open Squares, Gyratory, Gyratory, 1981
George Rickey (1907-2002), Two Planes, Vertical Horizontal II, 1970
Tal Streeter (B.1934), Endless Column, 1968
Alexander Lieberman (1912-1999), Iliad 1974-76
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), Square Forms with Circles ,1963
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), Forms in Movement, 1956, Cast 1967
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), City on a High Mountain, 1981
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), The Arch 1975, Calder Foundation
Alexander Lieberman (1912-1999), Adonai, 1971
Storm King Art Center
1 Museum Road
New Windsor, NY 12553
845-534-3115
Foreign tourists have been known to lurk
