Google Mismatch

It’s always great to get a Chrinitoid email. Yesterday, RPI alumnus Evan Kurtz (’74-’75) reached out to tell me he had found the Crinitoid [sic] in New Zealand at Gibbs Farm. As I am pretty confident our Chrinitoid remains firmly anchored in Zurich, I did some googling.

While the sculpture is similar…and apparently in a beautiful setting…this is not our Chrinitoid.

There were several variations of George Rickey’s “Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyratory Up”. This is variation “V” (5). The RPI sculpture was variation “III” (3).

In a 1979 video by George Rickey highlighting variant IV in Cincinnati, Ohio, he noted each panel was 20′ long, 5′ wide and 10″ thick…each weighing about 1000 lbs. He went in to not a larger version was in Rotterdam…and a smaller one on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. The Chrinitoid’s measurements are 19’6″ x 59″ and it stands 35 feet tall.

Here are the variants I have found:

• Rotterdam
• Zurich (The Chrinitoid)
• Cincinatti
• New Zealand (Gibb Farms)
  • Pleasanton, CA (see below)

Note: While googling for this post, I noted that the stock photo site Alamy.com acknowledges the name “Chrinitoid”!

The Rickey Foundation site shows Variant V in Pleasanton, CA in 1987 at the Koll Company. The Smithsonian appears to agree. I wonder if they are the same (new owners) or different variants.