Art Environment

Experience an art of place.

Come see snow-capped bears in winter, Nixon disappearing amid summer cattails, and the Geometric Cow’s udder swaying in the breeze on a fall day. The Langlais Preserve is different in every season, always changing.

Bernard Langlais enjoyed making and displaying his art outdoors, where weather, wildlife, and people interact with the work. He valued the aliveness of wood and left behind artworks that are as impermanent as they are imposing. Today, the Preserve grounds are home to more than a dozen of Langlais’s outdoor artworks from 1966 to 1977. Some works are brightly painted, others show five decades of Maine weather on their rough-hewn surfaces. The sculptures can be viewed via a 1/4-mile ADA-accessible gravel path, which meanders amid ponds, apple trees, hayfields, mowed lawns, and granite ledges.