and the Quarryman's Museum
50 Fite Road
Saugerties, NY 12477
(845)246-3400

"One of the largest and most beguiling works of art on the entire continent."
- Brendan Gill, Architectural Digest

Opus 40 mourns the tragic passing of our friend Ron deLaura, who has done our stonework maintenance for many years, and done it beautifully. His work will forever be a part of Opus 40.

We're preparing for our gala Memorial Day weekend opening, working especially hard this year to clear away overhanging trees at the back part of the sculpture, so that everything will be beautiful for the new season. We look forward to seeing you then! People have been starting to come and visit with the good weather, and although we won't be opening the museum and gift shop till Memorial Day weekend, we have been allowing visitors to come as see the sculpture as long as there's someone here.

About one hundred miles from New York City, tucked into a pocket of the Catskills near Saugerties, lies one of the most extraordinary pieces of sculpture ever created by a single man.

The work is an immense composition of finely fitted stone, rising in ramps and swirling terraces around pools and trees and fountains out of the rock bed of an abandoned bluestone quarry. It spreads out over more than six acres.

It is the product of more thirty-seven years of a man's life. His name was Harvey Fite. He worked alone, using his hands and traditional quarryman's tools, while building his masterpiece: Opus 40.

Today, Opus 40 is maintained by a not-for-profit corporation, which is responsible for its maintenance, for opening to the public, and for presenting arts programs.