Outdoor Sculptures

The Langlais Preserve grounds are home to more than a dozen of Bernard Langlais’s place-based outdoor artworks from 1966 to 1977. Some sculptures are eye-catching against the landscape, with their bright paint and towering stature. Some show five decades of Maine weather on their rough-hewn surfaces. Still others have almost completely returned to the land, their grayed and splintered forms easily overlooked if not for an enduring pair of ears or a strange animism.

The majority of the artworks are accessible via a 1/4-mile ADA-compliant gravel path, which meanders amid ponds, fields, mowed lawns, and granite ledges. Visitors are welcome to get up close and enjoy the works from all angles, as long as their feet remain on the ground and not on the art. Touching is permitted and encouraged, but please do not climb on the sculptures.