Langlais Preserve

Horse (1966), Cushing, Maine, 2008. Photograph by Pixel Acuity, courtesy of the Colby College Museum of Art.

Langlais Art Preserve

The Langlais Art Preserve is located at 576 River Road, Cushing, ME 04563 and is open from dawn to dusk with a 1/4 mile ADA-accessible path. The barn and workshop, which contain selected artworks, tools, materials, and ephemera, are open seasonally to the public.

The Langlais Art Preserve is a nature and sculpture park celebrating Bernard Langlais’s legacy and the natural resources of the Cushing peninsula. Established on a portion of Langlais’s Cushing homestead, the Preserve retains several of Langlais’s outdoor sculptures in situ, including the thirteen-foot Horse, Langlais’s first monumental outdoor work and a landmark of Cushing’s River Road; his satirical depiction of Richard Nixon in a marshy pond; and his sculptural homage to Christina Olson, the local woman featured in Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 masterpiece, Christina’s World, among other works.

The most significant of Kohler Foundation’s conservation and gifting initiatives in Maine, the Langlais Preserve is owned and operated by the Georges River Land Trust of Rockland, see the documentary here.