White Christmas - In space no one can hear you paint (detail)
Greeting Card - 1979

Three Hundred Sky Lines Over Planet Earth

Companion to the Sky Line Gallery

During the year 1978 I was frequently thinking of the year 1979. I was thinking of one or more of the aspects concerning my much anticipated move to San Francisco, California – much anticipated by me. I was also doing my best to enjoy the company of everyone I knew and all that Minneapolis and Minnesota had to offer. I was going to places throughout the state that I had never been before. I was going to the Walker Art Center at least two or three times a month to look at the art, to attend different kinds of events and look at art more in the process of burning all of it into my brain and being.

I was working as an architectural silk screener at Graphic Specialties Inc. My job was less than a mile from my shared apartment across the street from two Minneapolis lakes. I silk screened various kinds of signs for buildings, stores, churches, offices, you name it. Sometimes we did on-site silk screening directly onto the walls of our customers and that was my favorite part.

GSI was located in a small concrete block building with industrial windows. Each window consisted of a grid of twelve inch square window panes with metal hardware between each pane of glass. The overall window was three or four squares wide and five or six high.

One day while waiting for some sign to dry in the fan, I was looking west out the windows beside the silk screening table. I was thinking that I would work as a silk screener in San Francisco. The trouble with that plan, I already knew, was that the chemicals of the job were causing me to have headaches. I knew the chemicals caused pregnant women to miscarry. That miscarry fact seemed bad to me, like if you were human and breathing the stuff, it was not good for you. With such thoughts in mind, while looking through one of those squares of glass, I suddenly thought of a linear sculpture hanging up there in the blue sky background with no strings or anything else attached. The line would be there - in the sky – a Sky Line – not vertical or straight but at an angle. The idea of that line was a defining moment regarding my art work.

I already knew of Christo’s land art projects and of Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. I had just learned of De Maria’s Lightning Field. I had seen a few land art projects in Minnesota. I thought why not a sky project over the land marking particular locations? I admit the idea was immediately limited to the conceptual in that I do not have an antigravity machine enabling me to install sculptures in the air. I have not learned that anyone else has such a device. As a concept – I figure I can install a Sky Line wherever and whenever I want. I could make a list of those locations. I thought I could make images to illustrate what I was thinking - as I did. Over the years I have continued to think of Sky Line locations while travelling, reading or looking at pictures. I have been to and thought of many Sky Line locations over these years. I have especially focused on the list idea while working on the content for this website over the last nine months.

Back in 1978, I considered the idea of Sky Lines for only a couple minutes when I knew a Sky Line was going over the Walker Art Center. It did not take me long to mentally move on to thinking of other locations. I eventually came up with the idea of Three Hundred Sky Lines over Planet Earth. Thinking of three hundred locations was all too easy considering the overall planet. Many locations did not make the list but should have a Sky Line over them as far as I am concerned.

A list of three hundred Sky Lines follows. In the gallery, see three hundred images of Sky Lines over two hundred fifty different locations. Some locations in the list below are seen the Sky Line Gallery but many locations are not. In the gallery you will see other locations not in the list. Enjoy your world tour over locations on earth and through time into space. Thank you for visiting Sky Line over Internet – A Museum of Contemporary Art.

Best Regards - Peace – Murray S. Nelson – Oakland CA - 2016



300 Sky Lines over Planet Earth

Think to yourself - “Sky Line over…” - complete sentence with selections from below -

1. Walker Art Center – Minneapolis MN

2. Minneapolis Institute of Art – Minneapolis MN

3. Weisman Art Museum – U of M – Minneapolis MN

4. Minnesota Museum of Art – St Paul MN

5. Caponi Art Park – Eagan MN

6. Duluth Art Institute – Duluth MN

7. Tweed Museum of Art – U of M – Duluth MN

8. Skyline Gallery – Duluth MN

9. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art – Madison WI

10. Milwaukee Art Museum – Milwaukee WI

11. Winnipeg Art Gallery – Winnipeg MB

12. Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago IL

13. The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago IL

14. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art – Chicago IL

15. Smart Museum of Art – Chicago IL

16. National Veterans Art Museum – Chicago IL

17. De Paul Art Museum – Lincoln Park – Chicago IL

18. Skokie North Shore Sculpture Park – Chicago IL

19. Contemporary Art Museum – St Louis MO

20. St Louis Arch – St Louis MO

21. Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City KS

22. Kemper Museum of Art – Kansas City KS

23. Museum of Contemporary Art – Cleveland OH

24. Brooks Museum of Art – Memphis TN

25. High Museum of Art – Atlanta GA

26. Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia – Atlanta GA

27. Museum of Contemporary Art – Jacksonville FL

28. Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami FL

29. Frost Art Museum – Miami FL

30. North Carolina Museum of Art – Raleigh NC

31. South-East Center for Contemporary Art – Winston-Salem NC

32. East Wing – National Gallery & Sculpture Garden – Washington DC

33. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden – Washington Dc

34. American Portrait Gallery – Washington DC

35. American Indian Museum – Washington DC

36. National Museum of African Art – Washington DC

37. Freer Gallery of Art – Washington DC

38. Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington DC

39. The Phillips Collection – Washington DC

40. Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia PA

41. Rodin Museum – Philadelphia PA

42. Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston MA

43. Museum of Fine Art – Boston MA

44. Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco CA

45. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – San Francisco CA

46. De Young Museum of Fine Art – San Francisco CA

47. Legion of Honor Museum of Fine Art – San Francisco CA

48. Asian Arts Museum – San Francisco CA

49. Yerba Buena Center – San Francisco CA

50. Capp Street Art Gallery – San Francisco CA

51. Haines Gallery – San Francisco CA

52. Pier 24 – San Francisco CA

53. Coit Tower – San Francisco CA

54. West Span of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge – San Francisco CA

55. Golden Gate Bridge ¬– San Francisco CA

56. Oakland Museum of California – Oakland CA

57. Middle Harbor – Oakland CA

58. U C Berkeley Art Museum – Berkeley CA

59. Stone River – land art Andy Goldsworthy 2001 permanent – Stanford U CA

60. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art – San Jose CA

61. San Jose Museum of Art – San Jose CA

62. Runnymede Sculpture Farm – Woodside CA

63. Watts Towers – art project Simon Rodia WIP 1921-55 – Los Angeles CA

64. Los Angeles County Museum – Los Angeles CA

65. Hammer Museum – Los Angeles CA

66. Museum of Contemporary Art – Los Angeles CA

67. The Getty Museum – the Robert Irwin Gardens – Los Angeles CA

68. The Fisher Museum of Art – USC Los Angeles CA

69. Museum of Contemporary Art - San Diego CA

70. Portland Art Museum – Portland OR

71. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art – Salt Lake City UT

72. Spiral Jetty – land art Robert Smithson since 1970 – Great Salt Lake UT

73. Seattle Art Museum – Seattle WA

74. Frye Art Museum Art – Seattle WA

75. Henry Gallery – Seattle WA

76. Chihuly Gardens & Glass Museum – Seattle WA

77. Olympic Sculpture Garden – Seattle WA

78. Vancouver Museum of Anthropology – Vancouver BC

79. Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art – Vancouver BC

80. Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center – Anchorage AK

81. Alaska State Museum – Juneau AK

82. New Mexico Museum of Art – Santa Fe NM

83. Georgia O’Keefe Museum – Santa Fe NM

84. Museum of Contemporary Native Arts – Santa Fe NM

85. Lightning Field – land art Walter De Maria – since 1977 – NM

86. Museum of Contemporary Art – Scottsdale AZ

87. Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson AZ

88. Roden Crater – land art James Turrell - since 1972 – AZ

89. Denver Museum of Art – Denver CO

90. Clyfford Still Museum – Denver CO

91. Museum of Contemporary Art – Denver CO

92. Museum of Modern Art – New York NY

93. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art – New York NY

94. Whitney Museum of Art – New York NY

95. Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York NY

96. DIA Center for Arts – New York NY

97. The New Museum of Contemporary Art ¬– New York NY

98. Artist Space – New York NY

99. The Cloisters – New York NY

100. Duke Ellington – sculpture Richard Graham 1997 – 5th & 110th St – New York NY

101. Storm King Art Center – Foundation 1960 to present - New Windsor NY

102. Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art – Montreal QC

103. Museum of Contemporary Art – Toronto ON

104. Stonypath – art park Ian Hamilton Finley since 1966 – Edinburgh UK

105. Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden – St Ives UK

106. Tate Modern – London UK

107. Tate National – London UK

108. National Gallery – London UK

109. British Museum – London UK

110. Serpentine Gallery – Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park - London UK

111. Saatchi Gallery – London UK

112. Contemporary Arts at Royal Museums – Greenwich UK

113. Nelson Mandela Bridge – Johannesburg So Africa

114. Ndebele Museum – Botshabalo So Africa

115. Punta Della Dogana – Venice Italy

116. Wall Drawing #913 – drawing Sol Lewitt 1999 – Alba Italy

117. Museum Island – five art museums on one island – Berlin Germany

118. Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design – Berlin Germany

119. Museum of Photography – Berlin Germany

120. New National Gallery – Berlin Germany

121. Museum of Contemporary Art – Hamburg Germany

122. Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam Netherlands

123. Op Art Museum – Amsterdam Netherlands

124. Reflex Modern Art Gallery – Amsterdam Netherlands

125. Sexy Art Gallery – Amsterdam Netherlands

126. The Louvre – Paris France

127. Musee d’ Orsay – Paris France

128. Rodin Museum – Paris France

129. National Museum of Modern Art – Center Pompidou – Paris France

130. City of Paris’ Museum of Modern Art – Paris France

131. Pont Neuf – Paris France

132. Museum of Contemporary Art – Barcelona Spain

133. Fundacio Joan Miro – Barcelona Spain

134. Museum of Modern Art – Oslo Norway

135. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art – Oslo Norway

136. Moscow Museum of Modern Art – Moscow Russia

137. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art - Moscow Russia

138. Fine Arts Museum – Taipei Taiwan

139. National Museum of China – Beijing China

140. Hong Kong Museum of Art – Hong Kong China

141. National Gallery of Modern Art – Delhi India

142. National Gallery of Modern Art – Mumbai India

143. National Gallery of Modern Art – Bangalore India

144. National Museum of Cambodia – Phnom Penh Cambodia

145. Romeet Contemporary Art Space – Phnom Penh Cambodia

146. Fine Arts Museum – Ho Chi Minh City Viet Nam

147. Contemporary Art Museum of the Philippines - Manila Philippines

148. Metropolitan Museum of Manila - Manila Philippines

149. Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum – “Art is a Haven of Happiness” - Tokyo Japan

150. Museum of Contemporary Art – Tokyo Japan

151. National Museum of Contemporary Art – Tokyo Japan

152. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art – Tokyo Japan

153. Watari Museum of Contemporary Art – Tokyo Japan

154. Metropolitan Museum of Photography – Tokyo Japan

155. Mito Museum of Modern Art – Art Tower – Mito City Ibaraki Japan

156. Hida Takayama Museum of Modern Art – Takayama City Japan

157. Saitama Museum of Modern Art – Saitama Japan

158. Aomori Museum of Art – Aomori City Japan

159. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art – Sapporo Japan

160. Sapporo Art Park – Sapporo Japan

161. Shiga Museum of Modern Art – Shiga Japan

162. Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art – Kanazawa Japan

163. National Museum of Modern Art – Kyoto Japan

164. Niigata Prefectorial Museum of Modern Art – Nagaoka City Niigata Japan

165. House of Light – House James Turrell – Tokamachi Niigata Japan

166. Sydney Opera House – Sydney Australia

167. Honolulu Museum of Art – Honolulu HI

168. Hawaii State Art Museum – Honolulu HI

169. The Contemporary Museum – Honolulu HI

170. Museum of Contemporary Art – Aquascalientes Mexico

171. Museum of Contemporary Art - U of Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo Brazil

172. Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum – Niteroi Brazil

173. Museum of Contemporary Art – Santiago Chile

174. Museum of Contemporary Art – Valdivia Chile

175. Museum of Contemporary Art – Rosario Argentina

176. National Museum of Fine Art – Havana Cuba

177. Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao Spain

178. North Pole

179. South Pole

180. Equator at 0 degree longitude – Atlantic Ocean

181. Equator at 90 degrees West longitude – Pacific Ocean

182. Equator at 180 degrees West/East longitude – Pacific Ocean

183. Equator at 90 degrees East longitude – Indian Ocean

184. Cave of Chauvet-Pont-D'Arc – France

185. Great Pyramid - Khufu's Horizon - Giza Egypt

186. Stonehenge - Wiltshire UK

187. Great Wall – China

188. Monte Alban – pyramid & plaza - Oaxaca Mexico

189. Tikal – pyramid & plaza – Nat Mon Guatemala

190. Cahokia - Main Mound – State Historic Site IL

191. White House - Canyon de Chelly – Navajo Nation

192. Cliff Palace – Mesa Verde Nat Park - CO

193. Acropolis - Great Zimbabwe - Nat Mon Zimbabwe

194. Kami Ruins – Nat Mon Zimbabwe

195. Machu Picchu – Peru

196. Crow Castle - Matsumoto Nagano Japan

197. Taj Mahal - Agra Uttar Pradesh India

198. Tampaksiring – Bali

199. Lake of the Isles – Minneapolis MN

200. Lake Calhoun – Minneapolis MN

201. Lake Harriet – Minneapolis MN

202. Mille Lacs Lake – Mille Lacs MN

203. Outer Island – Apostle Islands – Lake Superior

204. Lake Winnipeg – Manitoba Canada

205. Itasca State Park MN – Headwaters of Mississippi River

206. Mississippi River at Lake Street Bridge - Minneapolis & St Paul MN

207. Mississippi River at Hernando de Soto Bridge - Memphis TN

208. Mississippi River Delta – LA

209. Gulf Islands Nat Seashore – FL

210. Everglades Nat Park – FL

211. Ocean Beach – Jacksonville FL

212. Great Smokey Mountains Nat Park – TN

213. Shenandoah Nat Park – VA

214. Niagara Falls State Park – NY

215. Acadia Nat Park - ME

216. Indiana Dunes State Park – Indiana at Lake Michigan

217. Badlands Nat Mon – SD

218. Lost Valley - MT

219. Waterton-Glacier Nat Park - MT

220. Yellowstone Lake – Yellowstone Nat Park – MT

221. Grand Teton - Grand Tetons Nat Park – WY

222. Craters of the Moon Nat Mon – ID

223. Bryce Canyon Nat Park UT

224. Temple of Sinawava - Zion Nat Park UT

225. Grand Canyon - at North Rim trail to bottom of canyon - Nat Park AZ

226. Petrified Forest Nat Park AZ

227. Spider Rock – Canyon de Chelly – Navajo Nation

228. Cathedral Rock – Navajo Nation

229. Window Rock – Navajo Nation

230. Inscription Rock – El Morro Nat Mon – NM

231. Rio Grande - Coronado St Park NM

232. White Sands Nat Mon NM

233. Joshua Tree Nat Park CA

234. Black’s Beach – San Diego CA

235. Malibu Beach – Malibu CA

236. Plasket Rock - Sand Dollar Beach - Big Sur CA

237. The Mavericks – giant surfing waves - Santa Cruz CA

238. Mt Whitney – Kings Canyon Nat Park CA

239. Mt Dana – Yosemite Nat Park CA

240. Half Dome – Yosemite Nat Park CA

241. North Dome – Yosemite Nat Park CA

242. Sentinel Rock – Yosemite Nat Park CA

243. El Capitan – Yosemite Nat Park CA

244. Yosemite Falls – Yosemite Nat Park CA

245. Tenaya Lake – Yosemite Nat Park CA

246. Hetch Hetchy – Yosemite Nat Park CA

247. Mono Lake – Mono County CA

248. Lake Tahoe – largest alpine lake in No America – CA

249. San Bruno Mt State Park – San Mateo County CA

250. Twin Peaks – San Francisco CA

251. Seal Rocks – Ocean Beach – San Francisco – Golden Gate Nat Rec Area CA

252. Mt Diablo State Park – Contra Costa County CA

253. Mt Tamalpais State Park – Marin County CA

254. Mt Shasta – White Mountain – Siskiyou County CA

255. Crater Lake – Crater Lake Nat Park OR

256. Three Sisters – Cascade Range OR

257. Newberry Nat Volcanic Mon OR - at center of Park

258. Mt Hood – Mt Hood Nat Forest OR

259. Gold Beach – Surrey County OR

260. Mt St Helens – Mt St Helens Nat Volcanic Park WA

261. Mt Rainier – Mt Rainier Nat Park WA

262. Mt Olympus – Olympic Nat Park WA

263. Haro Strait – Vancouver Island BC

264. Banff Lake - Banff Nat Park AB

265. Tundra - Wrangell-St. Ellias Nat Park AK

266. Mt McKinley - Denali Nat Park AK

267. Clyde River at Nunavut - Arctic Circle AK

268. Greenland Ice Sheet – melting fast – Greenland

269. Jotunheimen Nat Park Norway

270. Moshniy Glacier – also melting fast - Russian Arctic Circle

271. Wallabies Nunataks – Antarctica

272. Ross Ice Shelf - melting & breaking up fast - Bay of Whales Antarctica

273. Cerro Paine Mts - Torres Del Paine Nat Park Patagonia

274. Angel Falls - vertical drop of 3,212 feet - Canaima Nat Park Venezuela

275. Cape Point - Southern tip of Africa

276. Table Mt - Capetown So. Africa

277. Masai Mara - National Reserve Kenya

278. Manuel Antonio Beach - Manuel Antonio Nat Park Costa Rica

279. Great Barrier Reef - Queensland Coast Australia Park

280. Jungle - Virachey Nat Park Cambodia

281. Mt Everest - Sunset - Sagarmatha Nat Park Nepal

282. Kilauea Volcano - Volcano Nat Park HI

283. Solar Flare on our Sun

284. Caloris Basin – Mercury

285. Sif Mons - Venus

286. Hubble Space Telescope - over Earth

287. North Pole of Moon

288. Saturn

289. The Eliptic at far edge of Solar System

290. Time & Space - The Big Bang - we live in a matter of chance

291. Time & Space - One Billion Years after the Big Bang

292. Time & Space - Formation of the Solar System we know and love – wink

293. Time & Space - Exo-Planet – another Solar System in Milky Way

294. Time & Space - Quasar

295. Time & Space - Helix Nebula

296. Time & Space - Black Hole in Galaxy Centaurus A

297. Time & Space - Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689

298. Time & Space - Dark Matter of Local Universe

299. Time & Space - End State of Closed Universe

300. Time & Space - Multiverse

© Murray S. Nelson 2016