OPUS 40

Last weekend, I visited Opus 40 which is a sculpture park and museum in Saugerties, NY.  Covering more than 6 acres, it is made of hundreds of thousands of tons of finely fitted bluestone, constructed stone by stone over a period of 37 years.  It is all the work of one man, sculptor Harvey Fite.  You can walk around, and over it, from the deepest recesses of its lower pathways, around the pools and fountains and up to the nine-ton monolith that is the center and summit of Opus 40.  On the grounds is a Quarryman's tools and artifacts museum.  Henry Fite worked alone using hand tools , for most of 40 years and the museum honors the indigenous tools or our area.

 

Inside, looking out of the Quarryman's Museum

 

"Junkyard Dog"