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Birmingham Museum of Art
Charles Ireland Sculpture Garden
Birmingham, AL
The museum's permanent collection of sculpture, on display in the garden, includes pieces by Rodin, Lipchitz, Hepworth, Caro, Pepper, Botero,
Hollis, LeWitt, Scott, and Chin.

Alaska

ARIZONA

Roden Crater Project (DIA)
James Turrell, Artist
Flagstaff, AZ
In the San Francisco mountain range, Volcanic Field, at the edge of the Painted Desert is the 75 story high, well shaped Roden Crater cinder cone rising up from the desert floor with a rim that is circular and flat. In what is probably the largest piece of art under construction in the world, James Turrell is creating an observatory that will mediate between geological and celestial time, according to the artist. The work is basically a visual experience, "Homogeneous field" which is akin to white noise is to the eye, a perfect featureless sensual field, or "undifferentiated surrounds'. An example are whiteouts- moments during snowstorms when every line, shape and form are swallowed by all all encompassing whiteness.
This type of void creates a feeling which might be called numinous, mystical and an invitation to meditate on the nature of the void.
what is happening is not in front of your eyes, but behind them. The largest of these fields is the: Sky. Once Turrell noticed a cap cloud forming over the crater top. He ran up the crater and plunged himself into the cloud, at a level of 6,000 feet above sea level, sunlight penetrated through the mists and droplets of water evenly. The cloud glowed: a real homogenous field. As Turrell says he is making spaces that will engage celestial events.
More palabras on the Roden Crater, dated Sunday, November 28, 2007: Shh! It's a Secret Kind of Outside Art" by Jori Finkel. It is a wonderful testimony to media hype that the NYT can give so much space to an incomplete hole hole in the ground, in a caldera of an extinct volcano, in the midddle of a high desert plain in northern Arizona.
As Turrell, the LA artist, who bought the crater from Helen McPherson in 1972 says, "Sooner or later". Why bother to spend any more money on excavation and constructionb, when the crater is kept alive and breathing, quite well, just on the fantasy it will open in 2011, or never.
I'm from Missouri. I've seen other Turrell projects at the Henry Museum, Seattle; the modest display at the Nasher in Dallas; the tunnel at MFAH, Houston and the weakest of all, at the De Young Museum, San Francisco. Yawn...

*Scottsdale Center for the Arts
Scottsdale, AZ
Situated on a well landscaped green oasis in the middle of downtown Scottsdale are 12 or more contemporary sculptures on display. Worth seeing.

ARKANSAS

Ozarks Woodland Sculpture Garden
2 Pack McClain Road
Madison County Wildlife Management
Huntsville, AR 72740
Tel: 501 559-2966
camus@madisoncounty.net
New site specific sculpture added each year to the 12 acre meadowland park adjoining the Kings River . Currently four sculptures are on display. Admission is free. Sponsored by the University of the Ozarks, each year an Arkansas sculptor works with students from the university to create a large scale sculpture.
Call ahead for directions and an appointment. Gerald Carr, Manager.

CALIFORNIA

Art Center College of Design
Pasadena CA

Art in Public Places
City of Brea, CA
Started in 1975 the program has over 100 sculptures on display. Any real estate development over $500,000 is required to provide a suitable sculpture for inclusion in the project. The Community Services desk at the Brea Civic Center provides a map and self guided tour.

Auberge du Soleil, "Sculpture in the Olive Grove"
Rutherford, CA
Over 50 sculptures on the grounds of a world class Inn & restaurant. Incredible views over valley. Sculptures well displayed among the groves of olive trees. Benbow Bullock has installed three new sculptures in the "Sculptures in the Olive Grove" exhibition. "Firefly" is a series of leaping hoops heading out into space, but held in position by three powder coated I-beams.  "Pascal's Wager" is a brightly multi-colored sculpture, 6'H X 3'X3'; Blaise would have been proud! "Deval Tower" 7'H X 5'L x2'W, is a fire engine-red powder-coated steel sculpture in his semaphore series of sculptures.
There are over 40 sculptures on display on the grounds of the Auberge du Soleil ,with work by  sculptors John Battenberg, Bill Wareham, Peter Forakis, Charles Ginnever, Robert Holmes, Lucia Eames, Dan Dykes, Carl Dern and Lisa Demetrios. The sculptures are offered for sale by I.Wolk Gallery, St Helena, California.

Boone Sculpture Sculpture Garden
Pasadena City College
1570 E. Colorado Rd.
Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 585-7123
Thirty sculptures surround a "Garden of Activities" combined with a fountain and a stream running the length of quadrangle. Designed by New York artist Jody Pinto.

California Scenario
artist: Isamu Noguchi
2 Town Center, South Coast Plaza
Bristol at Highway I-405
Costa Mesa, California
You may need more than a GPS map to find this treasure! Situated on a 1.6 acre plaza between two monolithic glass boxes California Scenario is an analog of the whole state from Mexico to the Oregon border, and the Pacific Ocean to the Colorado River, in abstract format. Excellent, very understated. It is an absolute gem in the middle of the Costa Mesa shopping center and business office cacophony... Bring a lunch and fly a kite, I did..

B. Gerald Cantor
Rodin Sculpture Garden
(Virtual Tour), Stanford University
Great place to see works by Rodin.
Also many sculptures are scattered around the Stanford Campus : here's a map .

Chapman University Campus Sculpture Gardens
1 University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
(714) 997-2400
Started in 1861 as the Hesperian College the school is now Chapman University. It is the largest independent college in Orange County. Placed throughout the 42 acre campus are sculptures by, Richard Barr, Benbow Bullock, Da Versico, Jerome Kirk, Rosalind Mazzili, J.P. Jones, and William Wareham. The campus also includes building from the turn of the last century that are in the National Register of Historic Buildings.

City of Hope : The Sculpture Garden
National Medical Center
1055 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90017
(213) 202-5735
"Art is Healing. Art is Hope" motto of the City of Hope Arts Council, one of the leading health care and cancer research centers in the country. A wonderful collection of outdoor sculptures by recognized Southern California sculptors. Works includes sculptures by: Robert Brady, Guy Dill, Michael Todd, Charles Arnoldi, Peter Reginato, Seiji Kunishima and Gwynn Murrill. 

Contemporary Sculpture Garden
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd (Vermont Ave)
Hollywood, CA 90027
T (323) 660-4254
Enjoy the city view from the Olive Hill hilltop location of this cultural center. The park was the creation of Aline Barnsdall, who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the famous Hollyhock House in 1919. The house was to be the centerpiece of an arts community, with theaters and actor's dorms. It did not work out that way. In 1927 she donated the land and buildings to the City of Los Angeles. The City has has since developed the site into the LA Municipal art gallery and Theater, to provide space for visual and performing arts.
After the Northridge 1994 earthquake the park was closed for repairs and remodelling. The process included the opening of the new Contemporary Sculpture Garden. One of the first exhibitions will include metal sculptures by Michael Todd. Changing sculpture
exhibitions will follow on an on going basis.
The Hollyhock House is open to the public on scheduled tours.

CORNERSTONE festival of gardens
23570 Hwy 121
Sonoma, CA 95476  Tel 707 933-3010
info@cornerstonegardens.com
Across the highway 121 from Gloria Ferrer Winery situated on nine acres, are 17 garden plots. Each separate garden is designed by regional and international landscape architects. Opened summer of 2004 by founder Chris Houghie, the gardens are designed to show off the professional design  skills of the landscapers.
Gardens to keep an eye pealed,are Eucalyptus Soliloquy by Walter Hood of Hood Designs, Berkeley; who uses interleaved eucalyptus branches woven through a matrix of steel garden fencing almost 12' high; garden 16. Small Tribute to Immigrant Workers by Mario Schjetnam, Grupo de Di Diseno, Mexico City, Mexico, which features a reflection pool with a steel walkway border and a wall posted with photographs depicting various scenes of social activities. The Garden of Visceral Serenity by Yoji Sasaki, Osaka, Japan which features  man made patches of nylon woven fabric stretched over  undulating Hills and valleys, reaching out into the distance. Bad taste: Daisy Border by Ken Smith which is a plot filled with plastic windmills.
It is still early in the life of these gardens to judge the results of time and growth of the plants. It is certainly worth a walkabout in its current stages of development. In addition to the gardens are several stores that sell garden-related objects, plants and supplies. A cafe will open soon. Ample free parking. There is an entry fee to the gardens but not to the shops. There little evidence of sculpture in any of the gardens at this time. The gardens themselves seem to be site specific aesthetic pieces.
If you are on the way to visit or coming back from the Di Rosa Preserve  on Highway 121 you will see Cornerstone gardens as you approach the Sonoma Airport.

De Young Museum Sculpture Garden
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118 Tel (415) 863-3330
Reminiscent of landing on the jungle airstrip, and seeing the colossal archeological ruins of Tikal towering over the trees and undergrowth, is how I felt when seeing the new De Young Young Museum for the first time, yesterday. Awesome! It is someting that has to be expderienced to really appreciate the dramatic impact the building and landscaping have on Golden Gate Park and environs.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Mueron, architects of the new world class De Young Museum, are to be congratulated. Same kudos go to Harry S. Parker and Dede Wilsey for shaking up staid old San Franciscans into not only allowing such a wonderful structure to be built, but also for raising over $175 million privately, to build it! Bravo!
"Drawn Stone" , a site specific multiple element sculptures is made from stones quarried in Yorkshire. A continuous man made crack runs from the roadway, up through the exterior courtyard to bisecting two boulders on the way to the main entrance of museum. This not so subtle reminder of nature's powerful earthquakes on the San Francisco scene, and man's ability to work around it. "Drawn Stone", in my mind, is one of Andy's finest sculptures.
In the sculpture garden itself there are impressive sculptures by Noguchi, Beverly Pepper, James Turell, Bob Arneson, Louise Nevelson and Claes Oldenberg and Coosje Van Bruggen. Treat yourself to a visit to the New De Young...

Djerassi Artist-in-Residence Program
Bear Gulch Road
Woodside, CA
On the Pacific side of the Coast Range directly west of the Stanford campus are 500 plus rolling acres of grasses, wooded areas and smashing vistas of the ocean eight miles down the hillsides. SMIP is the sign on the gate; Syntex made this possible! Founded by Carl Djerassi, who started the Syntex Corporation, in 1982, as one of only 18 then artist-in-residence centers in the country, it is still going strong.
On the grounds in often hidden nooks and crannies are 40 site specific sculptures by artists that were in residence and left their imprints. They include: David Nash, Joyce Guatemala, Mauro Staccioli, Mark Reeves, Mel Henderson and John Roloff, among others.
Tours are by reservation, and it may take patience, but the wait is worth it.

* di Rosa Preserve
Winery Lake, Napa, CA
Are you ready for a two and one half hour visit to the most under stated cultural, art, architecture, and nature preserve in California? The Di Rosa Preserve! On over 200 landscaped acres, are four buildings designed for the display of over 2,000 pieces of visual art done by over 700 Bay Area artists, and the collection is still growing. The preserve contains the personal collection of Rene di Rosa, who is the founder. All of the art was selected by him. Surrounding the four large galleries, are beautiful vineyards on rolling hills that include the 35 acre pond, Winery Lake. And then there are the Canada Geese and Peacocks...
The Di Rosa Preserve is open year round for guided tours which are open to the public by reservation, and limited to 25 persons per tour. Tours are available for both the indoor art and walking tours of the meadows where large scale outdoor sculptures are on display. Bullock is delighted to have six of his sculptures in the permanent collection of the Preserve. His aluminum "A Rocket's Red Glare" and "Terra Incognita" welcome visitors as they enter the grounds on the paved entry drive at the Gate House.
You will not be disappointed!

Frederick Weissman Collection
265 Carolwood Drive
Bel Air, CA (310) 277-5321
(no web site)
Open to the public by reservation only. Docent tours limited to 15 people. His collection which was accumulated over 40 years has work by prominent international artists: Henry Moore, Magritte, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Botero, Rickey, and Viola Frey. There are over 25 outdoor sculptures on the grounds. The tour Takes 2 hours and is time well spent. Admission is free.

J.Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90049
(310) 440-7305
The vast complex of buildings and landscaping was the product of Richard Maier, architect. Just now ,2000, the grounds and gardens designed by sculptor a Robert Irwin are beginning to show signs of vitality and are maturing to complement to severity of the of the buildings designed by Maier. A an occasional sculpture pops up here and there, but not enough yet to call sculpture garden.

greenmuseum
518 Tamalpais Dr.
Corte Madera, CA 94925
Tel: 415 945.9322
Sam Bower, Director
Green Museum is a virtual online new museum of environmental art. In its incipient stages, the site is being developed as an international clearing house for environmental art projects, bulletin board and chat room as well as listing of resources for artists working in this new exciting arena of green art. Good luck, Sam!

Imago Galleries
45-450 Hwy 74, 1 block south of El Paseo
Palm Desert, CA
Breathtaking new two story contemporary state of the art gallery opened in Fall 1999. It was designed to display art glass, and large scale sculptures both indoors and out. Complete with adjacent sculpture garden. Changing exhibitions include shows or work done by Fletcher Benton and Dale Chiluly.

LOS ANGELES
Public Art in Los Angeles
prepared by University of Southern California
From Chinatown to Flower and Figueroa Streets. It is all here with titles, names of the artists and how to get there.

Walking tours of Downtown Los Angeles
usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk
lacity.org/ANGELSWALK/index.htm
laconservancy.org/tours/downtown

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

LA MOCA
Los Angeles, CA

Natural Elements Sculpture Park
Santa Monica, CA (310) 458-8350
Ten site specific sculptures installed on lesser used sections of the Beach from Ocean Park to the Pacific Palisades, "Singing Beach Chairs" by Douglas Hollis is the best known and easily recognized.

Montalvo Arts Center
PO Box 158
Saratoga, CA 95071-0158
408 961-5800
Situated on 175 acres of hiking trails and gardens "Sculpture on the Grounds" offers changing exhibitions of cutting edge sculpture. Recent shows included outdoor environmentally- correct site specific sculptures, ala Andy Goldsworthy.
Open year round it is best to call ahead for hours an and update of what is showing currently. In addition to the sculpture gardens Montalvo offers artist-in-residence programs, performance art, and outdoor and indoor music concerts.

Museum of Latin American Art
628 Alamitos Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90802 Tel: 562-437-1689 info@molaa.org
The Museum itself was founded in 1996; and September, 2005, the Museum opened its new Sculpture Garden to the Public. The 15,000 square Foot garden has many intimate , multi-level viewing viewing spaces, as well as an outdoor stage for performing arts. Currently there are 12 sculptures in the garden including work by Benito Rosas and Fernando de Szyszlo from Peru; Alejandro Quijano, Alberto Vargas Aguirre and Marco Aldaco- Mexico; and Cecila Miguez of Uruguay. The indoor galleries have 700 works of art plus changing exhibitions; currently on display is "The Universality of the Immaterial" with kinetic art by world famous Venezuelan sculptor: Jesus Soto, through March, 2006.
MOLAA is developing a an accompanying garden of cacti and plant indigenous to Latin and South America. Arriba y Adelante!

New Guinea Sculpture Garden
Stanford University, CA
A permanent outdoor garden created by 10 artists from Papua New Guinea working on-site in 1994.

Meadowsweet Dairy
811 Meadowsweet Dr.,
Corte Madera, CA 94925
tel 415 927-8112
Meadow Sweet Dairy got its name from their studio which is an old Marin dairy barn built in 1926. It is a collaborative of five sculptors who work together to make studio sculpture and site specific outdoor sculptures using natural objects like driftwood, stones, tree stumps, roots, logs and stumps. The nuclei are: Dan Ustin; Sam Bower; Henry Corning; Glenda Griffith and Alan Leavitt. Other artists work with them from time to time as well. Three of their site specific pieces are on display at the Di Rosa Preserve, Napa.
Some of the natural objects remain as is, while others are sandblasted and polished depending what is needed to reveal the objects as sculpture. Many of the materials have been marked by prior human activity.
An ongoing activity is working with scientists in the Farallon Islands to concrete rubble into a sculptural form to create a bird nesting habitat and a blind to study them. Ecological Art says it all!

The Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Park
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 238-2258
Located on top of a multiple tiered building designed by Eero Saarinen before he died, is a well laid out landscaped sculpture garden. Kevin Roche and Geraldine Knight Scott were the landscape architects. The sculpture follows the contours of the building levels. This design has been accepted by other museums around the world.
Sculptures include work by artists: David Gilhooly, Peter Voulkos, Bruce Beasley, Robert Arneson, John Roloff, Mark di Svero, Stephen de Staebler, Michael Hazier, George Rickey, Fletcher Benton, Viola Frey and Ruth Asawa. The museum also operates an additional sculpture garden near 11th and Broadway in downtown Oakland with changing exhibitions. The museum has also installed Benbow Bullock's painted steel triptych, "Meknes" in a high profile city park in front of the landmark Kaiser Building overlooking Lake Merritt, a gift of Walter Shornstein in 1999.
Perhaps unique among museums, the Oakland Museum features the display of relevant objects relating to the natural sciences, history and visual arts of California. It is a wonderful place to drift around in. Also a good restaurant is surrounded by art.

O'Hanlon Center for the Arts
616 Throckmorton Ave
Mill Valley, CA 94941 T 415 388-4331
"Sight & Insight" was started by Ann and Dick Hanlon, both artists, in 1969. Located on a beautiful four acre idyllic hillside near the center of Mill Valley, the Art Center was created to allow people of all ages to discover and create their own creative expression. The site includes a 2,000 square foot art gallery which has monthly changing exhibition,and other buildings that are used as studios for both the visual and literary arts. There is a very active teaching and workshop programs for both types of expression.
On terraced surfaces on the contoured hillside are locations to display outdoor sculptures. Some were were created by Dick O' Hanlon who was professor and chairman of the sculpture department at University of California, Berkeley, for many years. Queenie Taylor is the Arts Administrator.

*Orange County Museum of Art
Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, CA

Palm Spring Desert Museum
101 Museum Drive,
Palm Springs, CA 92262
In addition to changing exhibitions in a well designed new contemporary museum building, the museum has two adjacent sculpture gardens landscaped with a feeling of the desert surroundings. The Marcuse sculpture is located on the north side of the building off the Cafe, and the Elrad sculpture garden is of equal size and adjacent, but separated from the Marcuse. A sculpture show stopper is Mark di Suvero's sculpture that includes the actual bucket shovel from an old vintage steam shovel.

Palo Alto Baylands
Byxbee Park
Palo Alto, CA
Built on a 150 acre garbage dump, The surface of the dump covers a pile of garbage up to 60 feet deep, covered by one foot of impermeable clay, and then covered with two feet of topsoil. Cost so far: $1.4 million. There are no signs of vegetation or trees. The roots would rupture the plastic sheeting. There are no playing fields, lawns, playgrounds or picnic grounds. Man made art forms cover portions of this man made series of hillocks. Take a look and see what a retrofitted garbage dump looks like when George Hargreaves, landscape architect, gets his hands on one in the Bay Area.

Paradise Wood Sculpturegrove
4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Tel: 707 528-9463
On the grounds of the Paradise Ridge Winery in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, is a half mile long sculpture park on the entry drive. Changing exhibitions stress the work of regional artists working in ceramics and wood.

Queen Califia's Magical Circle
Iris Sankey Arboretum
Kit Carson Park
Escondido, CA (San Diego County)
Queen Califia was a black mythical queen of the Amazons according early California folklore. More later...
Niki de Saint Phalle, a French-American artist, is internationally known for her playful totemic large scale "Nana" sculptures. Perhaps the most famous is the fountain in the Pompidou Center, with kinetic sculptures crated by she and her late husband Jean Tinguely. Another gem is her "Sun God", a sculpture large enough to walk through, commissioned by the Stuart Collection, 1983, for the UCSD campus in La Jolla.
When she moved to California she was inspired by the stories about Califia when she moved to La Jolla, California in 1994. The culmination of creative inspiration is the Califia magic 120 foot diameter circle of totemic friendly fun loving sculptures, she donated to San Diego County before died in 2002. The Circle opens in October 2003 on a 12 acre natural habitat in Kit Carson Park, Escondido, California; one half hour north of San Diego on I-15.
A dramatic part of the Magic circle is the Snake Wall and Maze, a weaving pulsating circular wall 400 feet in length with heights ranging from four to nine feet. Writhing playful serpents open the way into a maze of walls and floors covered in black, white and mirrored tiles. Exiting the maze, you come upon an open courtyard. There are nine free standing colorful whimsical totemic sculptures in the garden based on American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Mexican art; enhanced by the artist's fantastic imagination. Queen Califia and Eagle Throne measure 24'H x22'L x 20'W; fiberglass coating over a steel armature and decorated in wild colors.
Bravo Escondido! Bravo San Diego!

St. Supery Vineyards and Winery
8440 St. Helena Hwy
Rutherford, CA 94573
Tel 707 963-4507
President and Director: Michaela Rodeno
email: divinecab@stsupery.com
In 1986, the Skalli family, a third generation of French Winemakers (Languedoc), acquired an 56 acre historic vineyard in the Rutherford appellation. This site is the home of the St.Supery Winery, the historic Atkinson House, and a beautiful landscaped campus that invites visitors wander and linger. The winery is famous for its Cabernet Sauvignons and Merlots, and most recently, a wonderful Sauvignon Blanc. In addition to the winery acreage, St. Supery has several other vineyard holdings totaling over 1,500 acres.
Late 2002, Benbow Bullock, was invited to install ten of his painted steel geometric abstract large scale outdoor sculptures. Intense bright solid colors do not frighten this sculptor. Bright colors are featured and enhance the elegance of the greens and browns of the lawns and vineyards, in contrast.
Most recently, Benbow is installing a fire engine red endless spiral steel auger, over 30 feet high at the entry to the winery. When the installation is completed, the sculpture will be a welcome marker to St. Supery, on Highway 29, the main thoroughfare of the Napa Valley.

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
MCASD
San Diego, CA
Sculpture Garden at La Jolla, CA

San Diego Museum of Art
Mary S. Marcy Court and Sculpture Garden
Balboa Park
San Diego CA
Great place for lunch in the courtyard restaurant adjacent to sculptures by Louise Nevelson, Henry Moore, George Rickey and Calder.

San Francisco art-SITES
The Indispensable Guide to Contemporary Art-Architecture-Design
An invaluable addition to the Bay Area art scene. Well written, by an author who has written similar illustrated guide books on Spain, France, Britain and Ireland, and Paris.

Sculpture Jam
Sebastopol, Sonoma County CA
Annual October event where teams of artists get together in a lumberyard in down Sebastopol and participate in making sculptures. Sponsored by Sebastopol Center for the Arts,

SculptureSite Gallery (Sonoma)
(Formerly A New Leaf Gallery)
23570 Arnold Drive, Hwy 121
Sonoma, CA 95476 707 933-1300

Sculpturesite Gallery (San Francisco)
Convention Center Plaza
201 3rd Street, Suite 102
San Francisco, CA 94103
T 415 495-6400
Owners: Brigitte Mickmacker and John Denning
These two locations replace their Berkeley site at 1286 Gilman St.
Sculptures galore!

Shibui Fine Arts
PO Box 333
Little River (Mendocino), CA
(707) 937-2787
Richard and Laoma Yaski are creating two new 5 acre sculpture gardens overlooking the Pacific Ocean just minutes from the town of Mendocino. Stay tuned for great expectations!

Skirball Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Emphasis on Judiac related art and culture.

Steven Oliver Ranch and Sculpture Garden
River Road, Geyserville, CA.
By appointment only. Private vehicles not allowed. One of country's premium
private reserves for site-specific art. 17 installations in the project.
Tours limited to organized visual-arts groups.

Stone River
Hand made megalithic experience
Stanford University Campus
Palo Alto, CA
"Stone River", a 320 foot long sculpture on the Stanford Campus was completed by British sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, in late August, 2001. It was made from sandstone from campus buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes. Goldsworthy brought eight skilled stonewallers from England and Scotland to erect the sculpture over a period of three and a half weeks. Set upon 3 acres across from the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts Building, the sculpture is triangular in cross section four feet in height and approximately four feet across at the base. Over 700 coping stones make up the apex of the stone ridge, each hand shaped at a different angle to fit the wall precisely.
The serpentine sculpture lies in a trough below grade, with the stone ridge apex almost level with the surrounding ground. To a viewer it appears like it is an archaeological dig. The artist likes the idea that over time the land around the sculpture will return to its natural state. Many of Goldsworthy's works incorporate used stone. "I like the relationship to the past life of a material-of one hand placed upon the other."- Goldsworthy.
To me, the stone sculpture has a life of its own both physically and mystically. It is a place that wants you to come back again and again; much like Stonehenge, Carnac and the Standing Stones of Stenness... A truly intellectual and psychic experience. It stands alone in Silicon Valley.

* Stuart Collection UCSD
San Diego, CA
Many site-specific sculptures on the campus of UCSD. Ask at the library for a map. Sculptures by Allen, St. Phalle, Robert Irwin and Bruce Nauman.

"Sundial Bridge"
Half way between Sacramento and the Oregon border is a new stainless steel $23.5 million suspension footbridge over the roiling Sacramento River, designed by Santiago Calatrava calatrava.com world famous architect. On top of that, the bridge functions as an abstract sundial, as well as let pedestrians cross the river in Redding, California. This is a big deal for a town that's only known fame was for fast food restaurants or a place to stop for gas and leave; truly just a wide spot in the road.
Redding, a very conservative town of 80,000 population probably would have preferred a covered bridge. Instead they now have a contemporary suspension bridge that is supported on cables attached to a steel pylon that is leaning at the same angle as the latitude of Redding, and pointing due north. At high noon the sun illuminates the hollow pylon tower and makes it glow during the lunch hour. At other hours, days and months its shadows mark the passage of time in shorter or longer shadows cast on the ground.
The Mc Connell Foundation with it $300 million endowment, convinced Santiago Calatrava to design and build the bridge, his first in this country; although he has five others under construction elsewhere. The footbridge, no cars allowed, connects an arboretum with the new Turtle Bay Exploration Park Museum of Natural history, both of which were also financed by the Mc Connell Foundation. The fortunes of Leah and Carl Mc Connell were early purchases of stock in the Farmers Insurance group by Carl's parents in 1928.
Soon after the opening of the bridge in April 2004 Redding may become a tourist destination, or it may not. In any case, it may be the only sundial bridge in Northern California. Actually, it looks great from here!
Source: NYT, Thursday, February 19, 2004, page D1 & 7.

* Tasende Gallery,
La Jolla & Los Angeles, CA
Best place in the country to see the sculptures of Chillida.

University of California- Berkeley Outdoor Art
Campus Landscape Architect
1936 University Ave #1380
Berkeley, CA 94720-1380
tel 510 643-9363
There are over 33 outdoor large scale out door sculptures on the UCB campus. I dare you to find them! Artists include: Emmy Lou Packard, Ralph Stackpole, A. Sterling Calder,(Alexander Mobiles Calder's Father), Richard O'Hanlon' Linda Fleming, Jerome Kirk, Victor Bergeon, Arnoldo Pomodoro and Alexander Calder.
However, there is a pamphlet with a map at the above address called "Outdoor Art at the UCB: A Century of Art", if you would like some help.

* University of California at Los Angeles UCLA
Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
405 Hilgard Avenue, Westwood,
Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310) 443-7003
In the 1960’s when UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy started the sculpture garden, he assured the Regents that all sculptures would be donated and not require university funds. The garden with 14 sculptures in the core collection with work by Henry Moore, David Smith, Jacques Lipchitz’s The Bathers, and Barbara Hepworth’s Oval Form. The UCLA Art Council, alumni and local philanthropists continue to give pieces which total now over 60.
The current permanent collection has work on display by Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Lynn Chadwick, Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, George Rickey, William Turnbull, and William Tucker. 

University of California At Davis Aboretum
"Structures in the Landscape"
Davis, CA
All sculptures are the work of UCD students. An emerging sculpture garden, is the product of Barbara Shawcroft, professor of Design.

Watts Tower
1765 E. 107th Street,
Los Angeles, CA
Built by Sam Rodia, an Italian born laborer from 1925-1954. He was born in 1875 and died in Martinez, CA in 1965. The towers are open form made of rods and bars coated with concrete and plaster. Found objects are embedded on the surface to create an overall mosaic effect. The towers are located in an urban mostly black neighborhood now. When Rodia started on the towers Watts was in the countryside. These magnificently incredible naive art forms are a splendid expression of self determination in the face of extreme disadvantages. No one knows why he built it or if it symbolizes some mission or myth that he may have had.
In 1959 the city gave permission to demolish the towers as a public nuisance, but were saved by the efforts Cartwright and King who bought the property and formed an association of helpers to rebuild the project which was a terrible state of disrepair after the Watts Riots. To get permission to restore the towers the building department made them show that the structures could withstand a 4.5 metric ton test, equal to a 75 MPH wind storm. The structures won handsomely. Ironically, now the LA Department of Cultural not only operate the Towers as a park, but also spent over $1.0 million to repair it!  

	Great job on a wonderful service. Benbow. We mentioned you in an issue of studio NOTES a while back, and will mention the revision in the next issue as well as have a link from the new site when it is redesigned. Of course, there is already a link on the site. Best, Benny Shaboy, Publisher, studioNOTES

COLORADO

Annual Outdoor Sculpture Festival
Loveland, Colorado
This a big deal!

Museum of Outdoor Arts
600 East Orchard Road, Englewood, CO
400 acre Colorado business park called Greenwood Plaza has installed 55 sculptures on the grounds.

CONNECTICUT

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
285 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Tel: 203-438-4519
The mission of the Aldrich Museum is the exhibition of significant and challenging contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists. The museum has no permanent collection and develops changing exhibitions. Many of the sculptures that had been on display in their sculpture garden have been deacquisitioned, while a new museum building was being built. A new sculpture park is in the process of being installed. The art on display is carefully selected, and placement is carefully planned. It is worthwhile to seek this gem out in your travels.

"The Family"  1957
Granite sculptures (Endangered)
Isamu Noguchi
Location CIGNA Campus
Bloomfield, Connecticut
Two large Modernist buildings were designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft , Skidmore, Owings and Merril for the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, in 1957. which became their headquarters  617 acre campus. Isamu Noguchi was commissioned to make two impressive outdoor large scale granite sculptures, "The Family". Five years later the company became known as CIGNA, and moved its headquarters to Philadelphia.
Now, June 2006, Cigna wants to keep only the parking garage, and tear down all the architecurally significant buildings and build a golf course, hotel and commercial center. The CIGNA Campus is now on the 11 Most Endangered Places List ,of the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
  It is not quite clear what CIGNA wants to do with Noguchi's "The Family".  CIGNA still occupies one of the buildings, which is near the Noguchi sculptures. There is still time to see "The Family"! But hurry...

David Hayes, Sculptor
905 South Street
Coventry, CT 06238
(860) 742-2730
(by appointment)
Connecticut based sculptor studied with David Smith at University of Indiana. Fifteen acres of his "Sculpture Fields" contain over 200 steel sculptures that date from the '50s to the present time. Interesting shapes and lots of bright colors.

Seaside Park
On Long Island Sound
Bridgeport, Connecticut
This 325 acre park was designed Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead, is now home to over 40 outdoor large scale contemporary sculptures. Sculptures in the park include work by Peter Lundberg, Claes Hake, Harry Gordon and Susan Griswold. Also in Bridgeport at Russo Park are a small Mark di Suvero, and others by John Clement and Joel Graesser.

*Yale Center for British Art
New Haven CT
 
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven CT

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Sunken Courtyard
Yale University
New Haven, CT
One of Noguchi's best known outdoor works is this sunken courtyard consisting of a marble standing cube, a circle standing on edge and a pyramid. All in white marble. All elements are slightly off balance and deliberately imperfect, creating a stunning subtle Zen-like effect.

Delaware

FLORIDA

Ann Norton Sculpture Garden
253 Barcelona Road
West Palm Beach,FL 33401
Tel: 561-832-5328
Cynthia Palmieri, Managing Director
annorton@ansg.org

Located on the Intercoastal Waterway, near downtown West Palm Beach, is the 2 acre Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, her residence, and art studio. Over 100 sculptures by the artist are on display. including eight large scale red "brick" sculptures, heroic in scale, on the grounds of the garden. They are strong references to pre-Columbian Mayan art and architecture. Over 300 species of palm trees are placed in a well landscaped
formal garden setting. Still, you can't help but to think that Tlaloc, the Mayan rain god, might pop out of the foliage at any time.
Another large scale group of standing figures are made with Norwegian granite, hinting of Vigeland's influence, a la Frogner Park in Oslo. In spite of derivative influences, Norton's own style comes through loud and clear. While she was alive (1905-1982), her work was shown at both the Whitney, and the Guggenheim Museums in New York. Her late husband, Ralph Hubbard Norton, was the president of the Acme Steel Corporation, Chicago.
Be sure to check out days and hours the Gardens are open, Palm Beach has a short winter season. While in the area, drive down Ocean Avenue along the Atlantic Ocean and see the large, Great Gatsby era, Spanish style ocean front homes designed by the Mizners, architects.

Art in the Park
Ft. Zachary Taylor State Park
Key West, Florida
Started in 1995 by sculptor Jim Racchi, Art in the Park, is annual event with work by emerging and established sculptors. The changing exhibition allows sculptors to select a site within the park of their own choosing to display their sculpture, often site specific, to best advantage. In 2003 over 39 sculptures were on display created by 32 local and visiting artists. Newcomers are encouraged to join in the 2004 exhibition.

Bass Museum of Art
2121 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33131 Tel (305) 673-7530
Designed Arata Isozaki, the New Bass Museum is a show stopper. Diane Camber, is the executive Director and Chief Curator. The museum has changing exhibitions. The current show is "In_Out", as in indoors in the museum building and outdoors in the sculpture park. Outdoors one will find sculptures by Dennis Oppenheim, James Surls. Jose Bedia, Robert Chambers and Lin Emery. Indoors: Ann Hamilton, Tony Cragg, Nam June Paik, Sterz, and Nadia Ospina. Cool.

Crealde School of Art Sculpture Garden
600 St. Andrews Blvd.
Winter Park, FL 32792 (Orlando)
tel: 407 671-1886
Founded in 1997, the Crealde sculpture garden represents the work of many Central Florida sculptors. Over 50 outdoor sculptures are on display. Sculptures by Cheryl Bogdanowitsch, Paulo Buggiani, Karen Smith and Michael Galletta are included.

Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park
Frost Art Museum Florida International University
SW 107th Avenue and 8th Street,
Miami, FL 33199  Tel (305) 348-2890
In 1994, art collector Martin Z. Margulies donated over 50 sculptures for placement on 26 acres of land on the campus of Florida International University. Currently there over 80 sculptures on display by international sculptors. The collection includes work by de Kooning; Jean Du Buffet; Richard Serra; Louise Nevelson and Isamu Noguchi. The sculpture is open daily and free to the public.

Sarasota Season of Sculpture
Between Gulf Stream and Orange Avenues
Sarasota, FL
Eighteen sculptures, all over ten feet high are aligned along a two-thirds of a mile in downtown Sarasota. Hoping to have started an annual event the sculptures will be on display through March 29, 2001. Artists include Terrence Karpwicz, Jorge Blanco and Michael Dunbar.

GEORGIA

Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens,
A Folk Art Haven
84 Knox St.
Summerville, GA 30747
706 857-2926
Howard Finster died of a heart failure October, 2001. A prolific artist he created over 36,000 pieces of art, all numbered. He retired as a Baptist preacher in 1965. In the mid-70s he claimed to have a calling from god to build a sculpture park on two acres of swampland which he called Paradise Garden. Nearby he built "World's Folk Art Church", which has a 16-sided cupola he built himself. Reminiscent of Rodia's Towers in Watts, his structures, sculptures and mosaics are fascinating for their complexity and naivete. But not to let that fool you, he had a one person show at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago in 1979 and an exhibition Museum, Atlanta in 1995.

HAWAII

*The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu,
2411 Makiki Heights Drive, Honolulu. HI
Wonderful museum in a contemporary building, formerly a residence in the upscale Makiki Heights neighborhood. Founded by the Honolulu Academy of Arts and now independent. The outdoor collection includes: Rickeys, Viola Frey, Charles Arnoldi, Wesselman & Bob Arneson. Beautiful setting, a treat includes the almost hidden museum cafe.

* Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu, HI
Subtle blending of Eastern and Western paintings and sculptures. Good selection of work by David Smith.

Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture
Holualoa, Hawaii (808) 324-1335
Sculptors as advisors include Deborah Butterfield, John, Lisa Bartsch and Shigeko Nakasone. The foundations provides hands on workshops about printmaking, textile art, ceramics (Pit fire and Raku) as well as having sculptures on display. In addition there are four galleries in or nearby Holualoa. Shirley Bell, President.

Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
4101 Wailapa Road
Kilaeua, HI 96754 Tel: 808 828-0525
email: info@naainakai.com
Who wudda thunk it? A 240 acre sculpture park, desert garden, formal garden, wild garden, beach/meadow and hardwood plantation in Hawaii!
Gotta to be kidding. Yes, it is real. And it is on the north, or wet side of the Island near to town of Kilaeua. Founded by Ed and Joyce Doty on athe formerly private Kilohana Plantation estate. There are over 60 cast bronze representational sculptures featuring subject matter like family, children, multicultural, wildlife and fantasy. While not your state-of-the-art break through contemporary fine art, the overall quality of the sculptures is very professional. Na Aina Kai also offers sculpture lessons, writers' workshops, jazz concerts and theater performances. Nothing shabby here!

Idaho

ILLINOIS

Around Chicago
Millenium Park
Northwest Corner Grant Park
(Over the old Illinois Central RR yards)
just north of the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue.
Highlight of the new park is the 25 acre Pritzker pavillion, another Gehry-designed architectural statement, like Bilbao. A collection of highly polished stainless steel arcs  over 4000 seats, and leave room for another 7,000 persons on the lawn. A pedestrian bridge over Columbus Drive links the Millenium to the rest of Chicago's lakefront system.
A featured sculpture, is Anish Kapoor's, 66 feet long and 33' high stainless steel rendition of an Oscar Meyer weiner mobile. It is high enough for people to walk under it. Nearby is a fountain designed by Barcelona artist Jaume PLensa, that has two 50 foot high towers that stand in a reflecting water pool 1/8th inch deep. As water comes falling down the sides of the towers, huge video images of 1,000Chicagoans are projected from glass blocks in the the high towers. As an also ran, is is a three block long ice skating rink that only operates in winter months. Chicago does not mess around!

Cedarhurst Sculpture Park
Mitchell Museum,
Mt Vernon, IL
(1 hour drive from St.Louis)
618 242-1236 Bonnie Speed, Curator
The park was started in 1991 on 85 acre of the estate of John R. Mitchell, has many sculptures in changing exhibitions that are on two year loans from other sculpture parks and art dealers such as Laumeier Sculpture Park, Socrates Park, Andre Emmerich and Leo Castilli for starters. This approach to changing shows with borrowed sculptures is attracting international attention.
At the entrance to the Park is Sabine Women a painted steel giant work in the Lieberman tradition. At Cedarhurst’s expense, artists are invited to help site their work and comment on conservation techniques.
Martha Enzmann’s Dancers are floating sculptures of a man and woman dancing. Activated by underwater cables to change the pace and directions of the figures as the wind velocity and direction changes.
Bruce Johnson’s Big Bang made of redwood and hammered copper is also on loan. It came directly from Socrates Park in New York, but was created in the redwood forest studio of the artist 50 miles north of San Francisco.

Chicago Art Institute

Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park
Schaumburg, IL
A satellite of The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in downtown Chicago, the sculputure park is an hour drive from the Loop, in a 20 acre well-landscaped forest, meadow and natural prairie. Well executed sculptures by Jerry Peart; Dennis Oppenheim; Jarle Rosseland (Norway); Klaus Vieregge (Germany); Apostolos Fanakidis (Greek) and Nina Levy. Well worth the drive.
Benbow Bullock's 24 foot high silicon bronze sculpture, Heroic Encounter was dedicated into their permanent collection May 26, 2001.

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Sculpture Garden

Chicago Museum of Science & Industry
Front Lawn,
57th St.and Lakeshore Drive
Chicago, IL
Changing exhibitions are located in the former parking lot of the museum which is now underground.

Evanston Art Center
2603 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL 60201
(847) 475-5300
Herb Parker's Grosse Pointe Passage is front and center literally in the front yard of the Art Center. It consists of a 60 foot long rammed-earthen passage complete with a colonnade with grassy sod cover the columns and roof. It ties into 18 foot tower made of rammed earth, sod and steel armature. Over 24 tons of pre-mixed material went into the construction of site specific sculpture. Is it out of history or out of the future? Your call! Don't miss it...

Farnsworth House
14520 River Road,
Plano , IL
Tel: (630) 552-0052
Designed by Mies van der Rohe for Dr Edith Farnsworth in 1946, it was a plan that he had in mind for Jackson Hole, Wyoming project that was never executed. After seeing the Plano site, Mies decided it would great on the river aswell as near the Tetons! However, as it turned out that was exactly what Edith wanted. After a rocky love affair and four years to build the house Edith did like like, she sold it to Lord Palumbo, a world famous London real estate developer and art collector.
Lord Palumbo added some of his art collection of outdoor sculptures by leading contemporary sculptors to the garden, and opened the house and garden to the public. Recently, about two years ago, Lord Palumbo sold the house and property to the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, and is now a National Trust site, open to the public. The sculptures were moved to Kentuck Knob, a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home, owned by Lord Palumbo, and open to the public. For history of the Farnsworth's house.
For information on Kentuck Knob see the listing under Pennsylvania.

Forest Hills Trust
Cecily Miller, Director
95 Forest Hills Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
Tel: 617-524-0128
Forever lost under the streets of Boston, Charlie still rides on the MTA! When not searching for Charlie, take time to visit the grounds of the Forest Hills Trust in nearby Roxbury. Over two hundred acres of well landscaped lawns and ponds, are graced with many types of trees from all over the world, some over 100 years old. This beautiful park is frequented by deer, red tail hawks, turtles and blue herons. Visitors stroll, bike and picnic. Meditation and contemplation is allowed.
Started in 1848, this park has encouraged the display of sculptures. Early on, they were mostly representational, some were done by Daniel Chester French. In recent years a Contemporary Sculpture Path has been growing with abstract sculptures by mostly New England sculptors, in varying types of media including: bronze, stone and materials that can withstand the vagaries of the local climatic conditions.
Come walk in this tranquil oasis, see for yourself what a peaceful place it is. Some say that there are occasional sightings of Charlie on overcast days. Admission is free. Caution: trolls lurking!

The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Governors State University
University Park, IL
Located just off I-57 at the Sauk Trail exit, this 300-acre outdoor park features 22 monumental works.

Oakton Community College Sculpture Gardens
Des Plaines Campus ,
1600 East Golf Road,
Des Plaines, Il. 60016

Ray Hartstein Campus,
7701 N. Lincoln Avenue,
Skokie, Il. 60077
Sculptures by mostly regional sculptors can be seen Des Plaines and Skokie campus sites. The College is located about 30 northwest of downtown Chicago. Their URL provides the locations of individual sculptures. "Red Baron", a thirty foot high spiral auger sculpture by Benbow Bullock was installed August, 2004, in their their permanent collection of outdoor sculptures.

Quad Cities Area : Public Works of Art
Illinois/Iowa
Four Cities along the Mississippi River: Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and Moline created this fascinating website about outdoor art along the river. Of particular interest is "Architectural Park" by Lori Roderick and other artists who have created 16 sculptures to represent human habitats. Also the "Illiniwek Park Nature Spiral" by Kunhild Blacklock near Hampton, Illinois interpret the River's natural resources on a spiral arrangement of boulders with 42 drawings of plants, animals and insects were sandblasted onto the rocks.

Skokie North Shore Sculpture Park
Skokie, IL
The park is two miles long and 100 yards wide. It is fun to walk or skate board the curving walkways.

Wandell Sculpture Garden
Meadowbrook Park
Urbana, IL
Robin Hall, Director
A three mile trail wanders through the 30 acre sculpture park. Most of the pieces sit amid recreated native Illinois prairie, the largest recreated prairie within an urban area in the nation. Most of the sculptures are on two year loans from the artists or collectors. Well displayed.

AROUND DOWNTOWN CHICAGO

Radiant I, Richard Lippold 1958,
lobby Inland Steel Building, 30 West Monroe St

Four Seasons, large scale tile mosaics, Marc Chagall 1975,
First National Plaza, West Monroe and S. Dearborn Sts

Miro's Chicago, Joan Miro, 1967 69 W. Washington at N. Clark Sts

Pablo Picasso (Untitled) 1967, Richard J. Daley Center, W. Washington
between N. Dearborn and N. Clark Sts

Monument With Standing Beast, Jean Dubuffet 1985, James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph St

Dawn Shadows, Louise Nevelson, 1983,
Madison Plaza, 200 W. Madison at Wells St

Universe, Alexander Calder, 1974
Sears Tower Lobby, W. Adams at S. Franklin Sts.

Batcolumn, Claes Oldenberg, 1977, 100' high baseball bat,
Social Security Building, 600 West Madison St.

INDIANA

"The Cummins Foundation"
The Columbus Area Visitors Center
506 Fifth Street
Columbus, Indiana
Tel: 812 378-4289
The only U.S. Post Office in the United States whose design was paid for with private funds! J. Irwin Miller, now 94, founder of Cummins Engine, billion dollar manufacturer of Diesel engines, made Columbus into a mecca for modern architecture. Population: 44,000, the Cummins Foundation has paid over $15 Million in design fees for world class architecture and the purchase of art.
Yes, Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Charles Gwathmey, I.M. Pei, Richard Meier and Cesar Pelli, have all left their design marks on the city of Columbus, Indiana. And as well, a large scale outdoor sculpture by Henry moore, and a fire station by Robert Venturi, and an 18 holeRobert Trent Jones golf course. Over 50,000 visitors a year, come to see what is happening in Columbus, an hours drive south of Indianapolis.
R.W. Apple, Jr, Summed it up very well in his article in the NYT, Friday, December 3,2003 "A Farmland Showcase for Modern Architecture" when he was talking about the architectural designs,"Most are successes; a few are masterpieces".

IOWA

Art Scene Iowa
John Busbee, Editor
Des Moines, IA
Tel: 515 707-1532
Whether it's in Keokuk or Iowa City, or if it is happening at all, it will on this site. Art and cultural news from around the state, calendar, reviews and web log, Iowa's voice for cultural awareness. For artists and art lovers.

Iowa State University
290 Scheman Building
Ames, Iowa
Tel:515 294-3342
Iowa State is home to one of the largest campus public art programs in the country. Over 2000 works of public art, are lcoated across campus, in buildings, courtyards, open spaces and offices. Over 400 were done by significant national and international artists. "Art on Campus" maps and information sheets are available from the above University Museums office. Sculptures that standout include work by: Manuel Neri, Stephen De Staebler, Grant Wood, Beverly Pepper, Christoper Bennett and Christian Petersen. One of my favorites is "Left Sided Angel" by Berkeley sculptor, Stephen De Staebler, an angel only one wing and one leg; perhaps depicting the human condition. Most of the works were commissioned, or were donations from the Iowa one half per cent for art buildings program.

Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50312
Tel: 515 277-4405
Not your run of the mill sculpture park. This one features large scale outdoor sculpture on an 81 acre site in

wood Park, by four artists to dramatize the beauty of the park. Bruce Nauman's Animal Pyramid is literally a stack of bronze larger that life size well-balanced caribou, elk and foxes. Like much of Nauman's work it is enigmatic but impossible to ignore. The other artists are Richard Fleischner, Mary Miss and Richard Serra.
The master plan for the park was to allow space for twelve more sculptures, but a devastating flood in 1993 caused severe structural damage to the Art Center Building. Funds had to be diverted and the current status for completion of the park is not known.

KANSAS

Martin H. Bush Sculpture Collection
Ulrich Museum of Art
Wichita State University,
1845 N. Fairmont,
Wichita, KS
(316) 978-3664
Every corner of Wichita State 330 acre campus has a portion of the 70 pieces of sculpture collection on display.
Internationally acclaimed artists in the collection include: Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Luis Jimenez, Robert Indiana, Botero, Rodin, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Goldsworthy.
"Beyond the Museum Walls: Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection" was published in 2002 by the Wichita State University Publications. Is a definitive introduction to the collection.

Johnson Community College Gallery of Art
Overland, KS

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Johnson County Community College-
Bruce Hartmann, Director
12345 College Blvd
Overland, Kansas 66210
Tel: 913 469-8500 X3972
Located one half hour south of Kansas City, is a 240 acre college campus, with over 40 sculptures by internationally recognized artists. The sculptures are spread out and cannot be seen on a drive-by, walking is imperative. At the main entrance to the college is a substantial outdoor sculpture by Clement Meadmore. Other sculptures include work by: Barry Flannagan, Magdeleana Abakanowicz, Anthony Gormley, Dennis Oppenheim, Louise Bourgeois, Judith Shea, Barbara Cooper and DoHo Suh. The sculpture collection is supported in part, by the Oppenheim Foundation of Kansas City. Everything is up to date in Kansas City!

Kentucky

LOUISIANA

Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins C. Duboll Circle (City Park)
New Orleans, LA 70179
(504) 488-2631
E. John Bullard, Director
The five acre Besthoff Sculpture garden opened with fifty sculptures in November, 2003. The sculptures include work by Lachaise, Moore, Lipchitz, Zorach, Hepworth, Louise Bourgeois, Segal and Joel Shapiro. Along the lagoon are two dramatic sculptures by Kenneth Snelson and another by George Rickey. The garden is well maintained and curation is wonderful. Steven Maklansky, curator. Free admission.
That is just the beginning. If you like the Besthoff sculpture garden, you will love see more of Sydney Besthoff's fine art collection. In the warehouse District of New Orleans, on the 7th floor of the K&B Building, Lee Circle, are the executive offices of Syndey Besthoff's former drug store chain. The public is allowed to visit his understated dramatic eclectic collection of contemporary paintings and sculptures. Wave to a passing secretary and she will open the door to the executive floor. Silence is appreciated. The collection has good selections by: Nagare; Manuel Neri, James Surls, Albert paley, Robert Arneson, Frank Gehry, Yves Klein and Nancy Graves. On the main floor outdoor plaza is a large stone sculpture by Isamu Noguchi.
The Contemporary Art Center is only two blocks away; 900 Camp Street at Howard Avenue. www.cacno.org <http://www.cacno.org>
504 528-3805. David Rubin, Curator.


Maine

MARYLAND

Baltimore Museum of Arts Sculpture Gardens
Baltimore, MD
Over 35 sculptures on display at Wurtzburger and Levi sculpture gardens. 20th Century artists.

Evergreen House
The John Hopkins University
4545 N. Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21210 Tel 410-516-0341
The 2nd biennial "Sculpture at Evergreen" features the work of ten artists
who have created site specific sculptures relating to Evergreen House. The
grounds comprise 26 landscaped acres near the Inner Harbor.
The exhibition was juried by Mary Jane Jacob, a nationally recoginized
curator. Artists shown are mostly from the East Coast. In addition to the
outdoor sculptures, galleries indoors at the Evergreen House have works of
other artists on display. Thank you Doina Adam for bringing Evergreen to my
attention. Doina is one of the participating artists in the outdoors.

MASSACHUSETTS

Arts on the Point Sculpture Park
University of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
September, 2000 the first sculpture was installed on the 200 acre sculpture park overlooking Dorcester Bay. "Huru" is a 55' high, 18 ton I-beam sculpture done Mark di Suvero. Other work by sculptors who have donated or loaned their sculpture for this project include: Sol Le Witt, Dennis Oppenheim, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Magdelena Abakanowicz, Tony Smith, Maya Lin and Luis Jimenez. All funding for Arts on the Point has come from individuals and foundations. The site was a landfill and former dump owned by the state and used UMB. We are all waiting to see what will be installed next!

Cambridge Arts Council
Exterior and Interior Sculpture
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge Arts Council is supported in part by the City of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Names of artists and titles of sculptures along with dimensions and street addresses of sculptures in the public art collection are easy to identify. It is an impressive effort to bring art awareness to the public.

* De Cordova Museum & Sculpture Park
Lincoln MA
Fifteen miles west of Boston this 35acre park is on the edge of Flint Pond. More than 40 sculptures, mainly by New England artists are on display among paths and, picnic tables. Works are from the permanent collection, site-specific commissions and long term loans. Usually about half of the sculptures on display are on long term loans. Mark di Suvero’s Sunflowers for Vincent stands out, along with Paul Matisse’s (grandson of Henri Matisse) Musical fence, both of which are on loan. The Matisse can be heard all day long as visitors interact with the sculptural chimes.

Forest Hills Trust
95 Forest Hills Avenue
Boston, MA 02130 Tel 617-524-0128
email: info@foresthillstrust.org
A cemetery, is a graveyard, is a marble orchard... for the living not the dead. Two hundred acres are covered with beautiful landscaped gardens, with well maintained grave stones, figurative marble and bronze sculptures, mausoleums, and tidy green grass lawns. A monument to expensive perpetual care, should there be such a thing. While founded in 1848, as a proper cemetery, on a scale similar to Forest lawn in Los Angeles, this cemetery maintains a sense of stillness, deathly clamminess, and morbidity not found in most cemeteries.
There are five memorials done by Daniel Chester French, commissioned by wealthy families. In recent years an on going Contemporary Sculpture Path, has been growing with a well done selection of tastefully correct sculptures, done by mostly contemporary New England artists. They maintain the solemnity and foreboding of a burial ground. But I would imagine the sounds of leaf blowers, and backhoes digging fresh holes in the ground, do well competing with the silence of death.
It brings to mind that the wealth that created this peaceful reserve, probably came from slave traders, rum runners, and corrupt politicians, all costumed in the proper finery of the period.

Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Thirteen acre campus located in the old Sprague Electric capacitor factory is a unique site with lots of unobstructed indoor spaces and courtyards to display site specific sculptures that may not have been executed because of space requirements. An example is "Tree Logic" by Natalie Jeremijenko, an Australian artist, who created an unusual environment for six growing trees upside down. The inverted trees are suspended from an aerial truss. "Tree Logic" is not the expression of any point in time, but the change in the shape and condition of the trees over time. Trees grow away from the earth seeking sunlight. This will over time allow the trees to assume unnatural shapes, provoking the question what is natural and the nature of nature.
"Clocktower Project" by Christina Kubisch, German, consists of solar cells, computer, sound systems and speakers assembled in the old 4-faced clock tower which had not tolled its two massive bells since 1986. Now recordings of the tolling bells played by Kubisch can be heard from sunrise to sunset with the brighter the sun the louder they toll.
Other sculptural works by Cart Andre, Dan Flavin and John Chamberlain can be found inside.

MIT- List Visual Art Center
Outdoor Sculpture
Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street,
Cambridge, MA
Wonderful examples of the work of Calder, Jennifer Bartlett, Calder, Heizer,
Nevelson, and Henry Moore. Location campus of MIT in Cambridge.

New England Sculptors Association
44 Fuller St
Waban, MA 02468
info@nesculptors.com
When it comes to sculpture if it's happening in New England they will know about it here!

MICHIGAN

Cranbrook Academy
Bloomfield Hills MI
315 acre academy campus near Detroit. Landscaped grounds with sculptures by Kahn and Saarinen, Carl Milles, Nonas and Voulkos.

The DeVos Art Museum
Northern Michigan University Art Sculpture Walk
Upper Peninsula
Marquette, MI
There currently nine sculptures on display in the permanent collection which is in the process of expanding along the walk. Al art work has been donated by artists: Sol LeWitt, Michael Todd, John Mishler, and Mara Admitz Scrupe as well work done by members of the art department faculty.

Krasl Art Center
St Joseph, MI
In the southwest corner of Michigan is this mostly undiscovered sculpture park with work by: Rickey, Richard Hunt, Jon Isherwood and Michael Dunbar,

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Arthur & Elizabeth Snell Sculpture Center
Grand Rapids, MI
Opened in September, 2001, the new sculpture center features interactive displays to help visitors understand the technical as well as the creative processes an artist must cope with to make sculpture.
Current work in the permanent collection include work by Nina Akamu; Alexander lieberman, Deborah Butterfield; Calder;and Richard Hunt. Future installations will include work by: Magdelena Abakanowicz, Keith haring, Jacques Lipchitz and Arnoldo
Pomodoro.

Michigan Legacy Art Park
Traverse City, MI (231) 947-1916
Impressive sculptures dot the 30 acre park which also includes and amphitheater for music and the performing arts.

Wave Field
Francois-Xavier-Bagnoud Aerospace Engineering Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Maya Lin, Yale art student, famous for her Vietnam War Memorial, has built yet another memorial. This one is for a graduate student that was in the UM aeropace program who died in a heliocopter crash. The outdoor sculpture consists of 50 grass waves in eight rows, with each wave five or six foot high green grass sod.
The undulating waves of grass are remeniscent of the Hopewell burial mounds along the Ohio River where Maya Lin was born. They also refer back to early Chinese paintings of the Song Dynasty and 19th century Japanese woodcuts.

MINNESOTA

Franconia Sculpture park
29815 Unity Ave
Shafer, MN (651) 465-3701
16 acre site supports work by emerging and recognized artists. Artist in residency and workshops. John Hock, Director

General Mills Art Collection/Sculptures
1 General Mills Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55426
(612) 540-7269
This is a private collection and not open to the public except by invitation or prior arrangement. The collection extends over their 85 acre campus and includes sculptures by Serra, Borofosky, Burton, Highstein, Nash and Armajani.

* Walker Art Museum Sculpture Garden
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Vineland Place
Minneapolis, MN (612) 375-7600
The sculpture garden is a joint public/private affair. The city owns the 7 acres that encompasses the garden and the Department of Parks and Recreation maintain the property, and funds from patrons of the Walker are used to install and maintain the sculptures. Over 1 million people a year visit this most impressive sculpture garden.
The landmark sculpture is Spoonbridge and Cherry produced by Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen. It consists of a gray spoon rising out of pond with a cherry balanced on top. Many locals come here to have wedding pictures taken. other notable works are done by Martin Puryear, Siah Armajani's bridge which spans a 16 lane highway, and Frank Gehry's Standing Glass Fish. You will never be under whelmed at the Walker, I promise.

Mississippi

MISSOURI

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
State Fair Community College
Sedalia, MO
The core holdings in the permanent collection were donated by a Sedalia physician Hal Daum. The stucture includes a large sculpture courtyard open to the sky. The collection includes work by Motherwell, Poons, Frankenthaler and Gene Davis. As well as sculptures by Dale Chihiluly and Henry Moore. stay tuned for more up to date news or or email: info@daummuseum.org

Nelson-Atkins Sculpture Park
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO. 64111-1873,
Tel: (816) 561-4000
Jan Schall, Curator Contemporary Art
Marc Wilson, Director and CEO
Yes Martha, everything is up to date in Kansas City! And getting better in 2007, when the 165,000 square foot Bloch Building addition opens. Designed by New York architect Steven Holl, the new wing will feature special filtered natural lighting in all the new galleries.The building will face north and south to get maximun north light exposure. When the old and new buildings open in 2007 they will have a combined space of almost 400,000 square feet.
When the first phase of the campus enhancement project is complete, the existing Kansas City Sculpture Park will be much larger. A sculpture by Walter De Maria, "One Sun/34 Moons" will be the focal point of the new north entry plaza. Already, Magdalena Abakanowicz's "Standing Figures (30 figures)" and one of Claes Oldenberg and Coosge van Bruggen's "Shuttlecocks" , a total of three birdies are on display on the north side of the 22 acre sculpture park. Other sculptures have been moved or covered, during this construction, many are still on view. The park is home to the largest collection of Henry Moore large scale outdoor bronze sculptures outside of England. Inside the old museum building, 40 maquettes and small scale Henry Moore bronze sculptures are on display on balcony gallery. Don't wait until 2007, visit the Nelson-Atkins now!
The Museum has had for a long time, the largest collection of Asian art in the country, maybe even the world. In the Asian wing you are surrounded by buddhas, bodhisattvas and dancing bronze shivas. And a marvelous buddhist temple for viewing or contemplation. The Nelson-Atkins is truly a world class act!

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
3716 Washington Blvd
St Louis, MO Tel 314 754-1848
The piece de resistance is a 125 ton steel sculpture named "Joe" in honor of Joseph Pulitzer, the patron and good friend of the artist Richard Serra. Its huge curvilinear steel swoops curl in and over each other. Visitos can walk through them and when they arrive at the center, they can look up and see daylight or stars shining down on them.
The museum is open only 2 days a week and is limited to 50 visitors on a first come first served basis, no ressys except for larger groups. Owned and operated by the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the Foundations only three oieces made by Ellswoth Kelly;
Richard Serra and Doris Salcedo and does not plan to purchase more. All the other 37 pieces of art are on loan from the collectiojn of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr and his widow Emily Rauh Pulitzer.

Serra Sculpture Park
Between 10th, 11th and Market and Chestnut Streets
Downtown St Louis, MO
Yes Martha, there really are two Serra sculptures in St Louis. Richard Serra installed "Twain", seven 40 foot steel panels and one 50 foot horizontal slab, in March, 1982, in Gateway Plaza. It is sighted so that looking in one direction you see the Aero Saarinen's famous Arch sweeping its upside down catenary curve gracefully enfolding the old St Louis Court House, home of the Dredd Scott decision. Looking west, you see a tall building in the Federal tradition, built in the 30's, with a faux Greek temple perched on top of it. The was the home of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, even though the closest reservation in Oklahoma was 400 miles southwest of St Louis. To get the full feeling of Twain, you have to go into a nearby high building and look down on it.
The second Serra sculpture, is the 125 ton "Joe" which was commissioned by Emily Pulitzer and named for her late husband Joseph., publisher of the St Louis Post-Dispatch. "Joe" is in a cortyard shared by the Pulitzer Foundation and the Forum for Contemporary Arts, thirty blocks west of the "Twain" installation. "Joe" is more of a self contained piece of sculpture, without concern for surrounding vistas.

Montana

NEBRASKA

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
University of Nebraska
451 North 12St, Lincoln 68588 (402) 472-2461
35 plus sculptures are situated on the 15 acre campus near the Sheldon Art Gallery. Expect to see work by Hunt, Haizere, di Suvero, Lachaise, Neri, Oldenberg, Serra, Shea and Zorach.

NEVADA

Burning Man
Location: Playa Black Rock Desert
90 North-Northeast of Reno
Closest town Gerlach
Burning Man Festival is a week long event held on the week prior and including Labor Day. A temporary city is created; in 2005 over 36,000 participants attended the event. It is an an experiment in community, radical self-expression and self-reliance, on a very hot, dusty and godforsaken charmless desert plain. The culmination is the burning of a large wooden man on Saturday night. Competing with the Burning Man, is the the burning of one of Petaluma artist David Best's three-story high temple projects.
Black Rock City (BRC) is the name of the temporary community. After the event closes, some visitors stay to clean up the debris in compliance with the Federal Government Bureau of Land Management or BLM's policy, of "Leave No Trace", or the event will not be allowed again. The BLM owns the property on which Burning Man takes place.

Double Negative '70
Mormon Mesa
Overton, Nevada
If the Culebra Cut, one of the largest excavations ever, and the whole of the Panama Canal, were built by an artist rather than an engineer, George Washinton Goethals, would it have been called one of the first pieces of Earthwork, Land Art or Earth Art?
Double Negative is a sculpture in the middle of the Nevada Desert, conceived by artist Michael Heizer and funded by gallery owner, Virginia Dwan. It was built with the use of dynamite and bull dozers. Two trenches are separated, and lined up by a natural gap in Mormon Mesa. The total distance of the two trenches and the gap measure 1,500 feet long, 50 feet deep. Over 240,000 tons of sandtone and rhyolite was removed during the the construction of the trenches. The sculpture site is owned by LACMA through a gift from Virginia Dwan. Property surrounding Double Negative is owned by the U.S. Government Bureau of Land Management.
Rather than postive space taken up by the Great Pyramids, Double Negative consists of three negative spaces, one natural and two excavated holes in the ground. Overton, Nevada is approximately 65 miles from Las Vegas, from Overton. To see the site requires a four-wheel drive vehicle. Careful directions, instructions and a clear map can be found on the above web site, maintained by Nick Tarasen.
Heizer is currently working on a colossal positive space project "City", based in rural Lincoln County, Nevada; 38 degrees north and 115 degrees west, latitude and longitude respectively. It is about 150 miles from Las Vegas. "City" is not open to the public yet, but is well described on the above web site.
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Goldwell Open Air Museum
Amaragosa Valley, NV (Near Rhyolite)
"Under Other Circumstances". This is not your average sculpture park, 120 miles north of Las Vegas in the middle of the Mojave Desert with the nearest settlement being a ghost town. Work displayed in the desert were done mainly by Belgium artists; After Szukalski, Fred Bervoets, Hugo Heyman and others.

Nevada Museum of Art
Diane Deming, Curator
E.L. Wiegand Gallery
160 W. Liberty St
Reno, NV 89501
Tel: 775-329-3333
Opening in May, 2003, the new museum was designed by architect Will Bruder inspired by the Black Rock Desert, of Burning Man fame. A dramatic curved black- zinc surface wraps around the outside of the 13,500 square foot, four story building. It will have two sculpture gardens and a rooftop terrace. Emphasis will be on environmental and installation art. Already in their permanent collection is work by Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim and Celeste Roberge.

New Hampshire

Andres Institue of Art Sculpture Park
PO Box 226, 98 Rte 13
Brookline, New Hampshire 03033
(603) 673-8441
On the basis of acreage alone, Andres is the largest in New England. The park is open to the public daily dawn to dusk, free of charge. The Institute has sponsored several important international sculpture symposiums with with artists from Eastern Europe and the United States.

NEW JERSEY

* Grounds for Sculpture
Hamilton, New Jersey
Grounds for Sculpture opened in 1989. It was formerly part of the State of New Jersey Fairgrounds, near Princeton, New Jersey, an hour drive from New York on the New Jersey Expressway. The grounds consist of 22 acres of well landscaped rolling hills that were created for the display of sculpture. In addition to the sculpture park is a two story 11,000 square foot gallery for changing exhibitions.
Call for directions and hours.
Sharing another portion of the old fairgrounds is the Johnson Atelier, a functioning large scale brass and iron foundry for the fabrication of fine art. Still another neighbor on the same grounds is the headquarters of the International Sculpture Center.
Sculptors with work in the collection include: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Bruce Beasley, Anthony Caro, Nancy Graves, William King, J. Seward Johnson, Beverly pepper, Tom Otterness, Joel Shapiro, Ursula Rydingsvard, Manuel Neri, Fletcher Benton and Benbow Bullock. Benbow actually has two sculptures in the collection, his painted steel triptych "Pillars of Hercules", and "Albedo", a thirty two foot high stainless steel endless column.

Grounds for Sculpture
Not what you think it is... It is the new restaurant on the grounds of Grounds for Sculpture which serves lunch and dinner in an art-filled chateau. Cuisine is French contemporary prepared by chef Eric Martin. Try the smoked fish plate with a frisee salad featuring Red Bliss Tomatoes.
Phone: 609-584-7800.

Ironstone Sculpture Garden
218 Commissioners Pike
Woodstown, NJ 08098
(856) 769-4913
Open by appoinment only. Landscaped 5 acre park includes sculptures Mitsuo Kikuchi, Casey Schwarz and Daniel Gantenbein

Newark Museum Sculpture Garden
49 Washington Street,
Newark NJ
973-596-6550
Ten plus sculptures in a formal garden setting include work by Segal, Rosati and David Smith.

Princeton Campus Sculpture Walk
Princeton NJ
A stroll through the beautiful Princeton campus any time of year is a real treat. The wonderful John Putnam Jr collection of sculptures includes works by Henry Moore, Calder Sr and Jr; Pomodoro, David Smith, Tony Smith and Noguchi.

NEW MEXICO

Lumina Gallery- Ridhwan Sculpture Garden
239 Morada Lane, Taos, NM 87571
Just off the main street of Taos is this wonderfully well maintained gallery and sculpture park with work by many well known American artists including: Bruce Beasley, Michael Braden,Frank, Jesus Moroles and Hans de Bovenkamp. In many ways it is the premier sculpture garden in the Santa Fe/Taos region. email for more info

El Ancon Sculpture Park
Ribera, NM
(505) 421-7057
Nicasio Romero
Ten acre sculpture garden that includes orchards, acequia trails, and mesa vistas. Call ahead or email jromero@etsc.net

Shidoni Gallery, Foundry and Sculpture garden
Bishop’s Lodge Road
5 miles north of Santa Fe
P.O. Box 250
Tesuque, NM 87574  
V 505 988-8001, info@shidoni.com
Tommy Hicks, Owner, bought eight acres along the Tesuque River in 1971. He turned what was an apple orchard and a chicken coop into what is now among the finest  art centers in the country. The 14,000 square foot foundry pours over 10,000 pounds of bronze per month, with a single pour capacity of 700 pounds into a single ceramic shell. The foundry is open to the public to watch pours on weekends. Be sure to call for times.
Sarah Faulkner, is the director of the gallery which consists of a large high ceiling contemporary building by the entrance, along Bishop’s Lodge Road. The gallery offers changing exhibitions of paintings, sculptures and multi-media art-related works. Outdoors, the gallery curates the display and sale of large scale sculptures in the seven acre sculpture garden.  Sculptors include: Bill Barrett; Susan Beran, Troy Pillow, Hans de Bovenkamp and Benbow Bullock.  
Sculptures on display cover a full range of styles and media; both representational and abstract, metal and stone, fountains and kinetic. It is a fun place to visit and explore. There is a lot more than cowboys, Indians and Canyon Road, around Santa Fe!

Walter de Maria's "Lightning Field"
400 stainless steel poles with pointed tips each approximately 20' high were installed in 1977 by the artist Walter di Maria.
They form a rectangular matrix one mile by one kilometer.
Sponsored by the DIA Center for the Arts, New York (See DIA New York link).
Local contact: DIA PO Box 2993, Corrales, NM 87048. (505) 898-3335.
Overnight stay required. Limited to two persons only Open: May through October.

NEW YORK

Art en Route
MTA Arts for Artists
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(212) 878-7225
New York City has done an excellent job of making travel on the public subway and rail systems operated by the MTA, an exciting and fun experience. MTA has a continuing program of rehabilitating subway and rail stations in the City and suburbs by funding the installation permanent site specific works of art. Write or call the above address and ask for a free copy of "Art en Route" which has photographs of the mosaics, frescos and sculptures, identified by station location and artist. The quality of the art installed is breathtaking. Bravo for a well done project and publication!

The C Lyon Sculpture Garden
315 Acker Road
Horseheads, NY 14845 Tel 607-594-2807
email: theclyon@excite.com
The "Sea lion" sculpture gardens comprises 40 acres of landscaped trails and grounds covered with 300 plus sculptures by The C Lyon. His work is strongly influenced by David Smith! The garden is open year round, by appointment only, and the tour takes one hour which includes The C Lyon playing his guitar, singing folk songs and reciting some of his own poems. The Garden is located not too far from Cornell at the foot of the Finger Lakes in Chemung County which is also referred to as Mark Twain Country.

*Albright-Knox Museum of Art
Buffalo NY
Small interior courtyard has 14 sculptures on display by sculptors of international recognition including: David Smith Cubi XV, Louise Nevelson’s painted aluminum drum a predecessor of her works in wood, Fritz Wotruba’s rectangular blocks of limestone; Max Bill’s granite Construction for a Ring. And Noguchi’s bronze Cry as well as kinetic peristyle by George Rickey. On the entry lawn there are sculptures by Beverly Pepper, Kenneth Snelson and Tony Smith. Albright-Knox is world-class!

*Battery Park City
A Guide to Public Art
NY, NY
(212) 417-2000
Located on 35 acres of landfill in lower Manhattan on the bank of the Hudson River, with great water views of surrounding shorelines and skylines. Ask for this wonderful illustrated free brochure that identifies 20 locations of site specific sculptures from the Battery to Chambers Street. It desribes the work of each artists and and a thumbnail bio of his background. >From Tony Cragg, Jim Dine, Andy Goldsworthy to Mary Miss; you love them all!

Buckhorn
Sculpture Garden (Private)
Pound Ridge, New York
Should you ever be invited to see the sculptures at Buckhorn, do NOT pass up this opportunity.

Central Park : Sculpture Tour
New York City, NY
Sculpture walk in Central Park. See everything from Duke Ellington; Balto, an Arctic sled dog to Cleopatra's Needle.
This web site is maintained by the The Central Park Conservancy, a non-profit group, 14E 60th St, NYC 10022, T (212) 310-6600. Each listed sculpture has link to it so you can see what the sculpture looks like before the taking the tour. The site also has an easy to read map with markers for location of each sculpture.

*The Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park
NY, NY
Owned & operated by the MET, The Cloisters brings Medieval France to NYC.

* DIA Foundation