Column with Rock and Axe

Artist Jim Dine (American, born 1935)

Date1983

DimensionsH: 101 in. (256.5 cm); W: 28 in. (71.1 cm); Depth: 28 in. (71.1 cm);
(With extended base) H: 144 in. (365.8 cm); W: 28 in. (71.1 cm); Depth: 28 in. (71.1 cm)

MediumBronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Georgia and David K. Welles

Object number

2003.52

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Sculpture Garden

Label TextAlready an established painter, printmaker, and draftsman, Jim Dine began to cast bronze sculpture when he moved to the West Coast in the early 1980s. Bronze has been a primary medium for him ever since. The image of a twisted column first came to Dine in a dream. When he found such a column at an architectural reproduction store in Los Angeles, he made a bronze cast of it. He then combined it with casts of a rock and an axe (tools are an important element in much of Dine’s work). The combination of parts lends the work a sense of private mystery, appropriate for an image inspired by a dream.