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The Way

Artist Matthew D. Fine (American, born 1963)

CultureAmerican

Date2014

MediumCast glass and granite

DimensionsPillar A: 63 × 10 × 10 in. (160 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Pillar B: 47 × 7 × 7 in. (119.4 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm)
Pillar C: 64 × 11 × 11 in. (162.6 × 27.9 × 27.9 cm)
Other (concrete pad): 84 × 45 in. (213.4 × 114.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Barbara and Andrew Fine

Object number2024.17

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum Grounds

DescriptionThis is an outdoor sculpture made of granite and glass elements, which rest on a concrete pad. The pad is eye-shaped and low to the ground. There are three separate pillars of carved and polished granite, each with a blue cast glass element near its top. Standing on Grace Street and looking at the artwork, moving from left to right: Pillar A (describing from bottom to top: granite 48” H, blue glass 7.5” H, granite 7.5” H), Pillar B (describing from bottom to top: granite 33” H, blue glass 6.5” H, granite 7.5” H), Pillar C (describing from bottom to top: granite 51.5” H, blue glass 5” H, granite 7.5” H). The pillars have slightly different, polygonal sections; one side is rounded while the other sides are angled. The cast blue glass sections appear slightly different in each of the three pillars; in Pillar A the glass appears most transparent with large air bubbles, while the glass is of a slightly different hue in Pillars B and C as well as more opaque. The granite is dark gray with lighter gray streaking.