Land Art
Artpark was founded in 1974, one year after Robert Smithson's death, and had an artist's residency program in his honor. It became an important site for works of the Land Art movement. It was the site of Alan Sonfist's Pool of Earth, a 25-foot-diameter (7.6 m) clay basin for catching aerial seeds, and projects by several women artists in the 1970s, including Michelle Stuart, Alice Adams and Agnes Denes and Nancy Holt. It continued to be an important laboratory for outdoor sculpture.
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“The land is numb.
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Walking securely, till the sea extends
Its limber margin, and precision ends.”
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