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Where the hills of New York become the gallery
An hour north of New York City, 500 acres of rolling meadows, woodlands, and mountain views hold more than 100 large-scale sculptures. No glass cases, no hushed hallways, no velvet ropes.
You walk the same ground the art stands on, under open sky, with the Hudson Highlands rising in the distance. Storm King Art Center is not a typical museum day.
It’s something harder to explain until you’re standing in the middle of it.
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How a painting collection became a sculpture park
Storm King started in 1960 as a 180-acre estate in Mountainville, New York, the vision of businessman Ralph E. Ogden. It showed Hudson River School paintings and a handful of European sculptures…