Crommelynck Gate
Jim Dine
(American, born in 1935)
1983–2013
Medium/TechniqueWelded and painted bronze
DimensionsOverall: 175.3 x 274.3 x 96.5 cm (69 x 108 x 38 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jim Dine and Diana Michener
Accession number2014.909
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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Crommelynck Gate celebrates the friendship and artistic collaboration between Dine and Aldo Crommelynck, one of the most renowned printmakers of the 20th century. The gate is modeled after the wrought iron entrance gate to Crommelynck’s Paris studio. Affixed to the sculpture are bronze casts of assorted hand tools, a recurrent motif of Dine’s work. Dine attributes his love of tools—which he describes as akin to relatives—to the years he spent working as a youth in his family’s hardware store in Cincinnati.
Provenance2014, gift of the artist to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2014)
