The Hudson River Museum has announced the acquisition of The Hudson Bight by artist, architectural designer and environmental advocate Maya Lin, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts. The acquisition secures for the museum's permanent collection a work by one of the foremost artists of her generation and reinforces its commitment to exploring the intersection of art, science and the environment. Originally created as the site-specific centerpiece of the museum's 2018-19 solo exhibition Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing, The Hudson Bight transforms scientific data into a single monumental hanging sculpture that reveals the hidden underwater landscape connecting the Hudson River to the Atlantic Ocean. Conceived by Lin as a drawing in space, the work has been suspended in the museum's atrium, with the wire-mesh sculpture cascading into the galleries below, translating topographic imaging and sonar mapping into an immersive work of art. Inspired by a 2018 US Geological Survey expedition, the artwork maps an underwater plateau that extends more than 100 miles offshore before descending into the Hudson Canyon. Lin said the work's focus on rivers comes from their environmental centrality: without them, she notes, we could not survive, and she hopes to get people to see things quite literally under their feet that they had no idea were there. Lin first emerged in public through her award-winning Vietnam Veterans Memorial and has since created landmark works including the Civil Rights Memorial and the ongoing environmental project What Is Missing? Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. The Hudson Bight enters the collection as a gift of the artist and Pace Gallery, 2026.