Cold Hollow Sculpture Park

Nearly 70 enormous sculptures stand in open Vermont hayfields at Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, and every one was made and placed by a single artist, David Stromeyer. Seven Days reported in 2021 that about three miles of grassy paths are mown through the hay, leading to, around and occasionally through the works, which span up to 20 feet tall and 30 feet across and are made of steel, concrete or other weighty materials.

Stromeyer bought the land about 51 years before that article and thinks of it as a gallery. If the colours of two nearby works clash, or a new piece suits a spot better, he moves them, a job that can need two cranes and a re-dug concrete base. The park shows his range: "After Hitchcock" (1977) hangs a massive fieldstone in the wind, "Jumoke" (2013) is polished red-and-blue steel, and "Ngozi" is a 19-foot abstraction of a female figure in poured concrete. Seven Days observed that the open setting hides the works' scale until a visitor is close.