Month: May 2009

Where did the name come from?

I have had two recent requests for an etymology for the name “Chrinitoid”. One came from the curator of the art collection that now owns the sculpture, the other from a fan. A couple of years ago, I received an email from a fellow Chrin-lover and apparently, the story...

Rickey in Kansas City

From Tom Cooper ’72: I graduated from RPI in 1972. I only heard the name Chrinitoid recently from another RPI graduate who was several years behind me. Do you know where this name originated? I happened to look up Rickey recently because I found one of his sculptures in...

No Sale.

My wife is a big opera fan. As members of the New York Met’s “Young Associates” (a sort of junior Patrons group), we met a fellow Opera buff (Peter) who happened to be a financial advisor for UBS. Jennifer said “you have to tell him your college sculpture story”....