Itty Bitty Chrinitoid at Vassar
Brian Jones sent me this Rickey sighting at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie. http://emuseum.vassar.edu/objects/23557/two-rectangles-broken-line...
Flashback
A Facebook memory from 13 years ago. My sister took a trip to Switzerland and made a Chrinitoid pilgrimage. Someday, I hope to do the same!...
Facebook sighting
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02K5x3SJWkYPqWzGbphif9yeCaeiiN9frNfkd4QJ7HGG7e9EwP61DV1bVY5N652wpMl&id=670954694&mibextid=qC1gEa the “Windkinetische Skulptur…”...
1985 Chrin-pix
Thanks Andrew Secor ’85 for this picture of the Chrinitoid circa 1985 And some other photos around campus....
Rickey sighting in NYC
I guess the sculpture has been here a while, but I noticed what was obviously a Rickey sculpture during the coverage of the Fox Christmas Tree fire this week. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/rupert-murdoch-wind-powered-sculpture-in-front-of-fox-news.html...
RPI Cheer worthy!
It has been a while since I have gotten a Chrinitoid comment. Glad to see they are still coming! That sculpture was the iconic symbol of RPI when I was there in the mid-70’s. Nice to know where it ended up. This calls for the RPI cheer! E to...
Chrini-twin
One of my fraternity brothers pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal about a sculpture farm in New Zealand that appears to have a Chrinitoid. While very similar, the Alan Gibbs version is Variant “V” while the Chrinitoid is Variant “III”. Still, I will need to...
Storm King visit
During Spring Break this year, my eldest son (10) mentioned that his art teacher was talking up a place called Storm King and that he would like to check it out. Since I was familiar with Storm King thanks to my many trips up the New York State Thruway…and...
Memories from Tadd Torborg
I love that I still get emails from people about the Chrinitoid! Here is a note that arrived this morning: This is a screen capture from maps.google.com in the location you identified on your web page http://www.paynecentral.com/tompayne/chrin/ I missed this sculpture so very much. Thanks for doing the research! I was...
A recent email from Julia Gavin
Thank you for finding out what happened to that amazing sculpture. I was a student at Russell Sage in the late 70s & I would often go and watch it sail and listen to it creak…it was a very meditative experience, & one that I think of frequently, even...