Opus 40

HENRY FITE

Pioneering American sculptor, painter and earth artist best known for his monumental land sculpture Opus 40. What I found most interesting is his immense composition of finely fitted stone, rising in ramps and swirling terraces around pools and trees and fountains out of the rock bed of an abandoned quarry. It spreads out over more than six acres and took more than thirty-seven years of this man's life. He worked alone, using his hands and traditional quarryman's tools, to build his masterpiece.