Just 60 miles north of New York City, set in a beautiful valley of the Hudson Highlands, are 500 acres of open fields, intimate woodlands, and rolling hills that form an outdoor museum unequaled anywhere in the world. The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, is a unique setting for modern sculpture. The natural beauty of the landscape - continually enhanced, sculpted, and nurtured - is home to an ever-evolving collection of important works of modern art. Here the sculpture of such modern masters as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Liberman, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, George Rickey, Richard Serra, David Smith, Kenneth Snelson, and Ursula von Rydingsvard find surroundings equal to their heroic presence. 
"Earth, Sky, and Sculpture" is at once a glorious celebration of natural beauty and a wide-ranging survey of the impressive international developments in sculpture since the advent of Modernism. What becomes extraordinarily clear is that most twentieth-century sculpture is seen at its best not in closed galleries but outdoors, under the sky. Works such as Isamu Noguchi's stone "Momo Taro" and David Smith's stainless-steel "XI Books III Apples" respond to changing light and weather as if they were alive. 
The magnificent photographs of Jerry L. Thompson capture the landscape and the works of art in summer and snow, at sunrise and dusk, glistening in the rain and shimmering in the mist. The interplay between works of sculpture and billowing clouds, fields of spring flowers, and green golden, and scarlet foliage adds dimension to the experience of sculpture only equaled by many visits to the Storm King Art Center itself. 
Essays by H. Peter Stern, chairman and president of Storm King; Peter Bienstock, specialist in land conservation and open space preservation; Irving Lavin, renowned art historian; and Joan Pachner, curator, enhance our appreciation of the land itself and of the Art Center's important collection.

Earth, Sky, and Sculpture

Peter A. Bienstock

Irving Lavin

Joan Pachner

Storm King Art Center

Exhibition catalogue produced in relation to John Knight's Storm King Art Center project "87 Degrees." Informative texts in English by Alexander Alberro, and Benjamin HD Buchloch. Limited edition of 1,300.

87°

Knight, John

Chakaia Booker: Recent Work: Storm King Art Center; May 12-November 14, 2004

H. Peter

Collens David R. Stern

Maya Lin: Storm King Wavefield

Richard Andrews

Published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition, Lynda Benglis: Water Sources, May 16 - November 8, 2015. Contains a foreword by John P. Stern, President of Storm King Art Center, essay by Nora Lawrence, Curator of Storm King Art Center, and a conversation between Nora Lawrence and the artist.

Lynda Benglis: Water Sources

Lynda Benglis

Lawrence, Nora R.

David Smith: The White Sculptures

Unknown, Author

Sculpture Guide to the Storm King collection. Will be available June 2015.

Storm King Art Center: Sculpture Guide

Theresa Choi

Ellen Grenley

Nora R. Lawrence

Victoria Lichtendorf

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