Trinity – 1960 – Portsmouth Benedictine Abbey, Rhode Island

Commissioned in 1957 by Bill Burden, former chairman of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A Trinity of forms, beginning over the altar where, from the suspended crucifix, radiating elements extend into the choir, into the chapel proper and descend from around the skylight.

Suspended in the gold wires are bars of polished aluminum which reflect the colors of Gyorgy Kepes’ stained-glass windows, seemingly fragments of them in the interior space.

The church, designed by Pietro Belluschi, imitates the design of a sixth-century church built in the lifetime of Pope Gregory the Great.