For years, Irving Morrow traveled by ferry from his Oakland home to work in San Francisco. Daily, he crossed the bay through fog, wind, billowing clouds and ever-changing light. Morrow’s painterly spirit soaked up the bay’s nuanced morning-to-night drama of water and land and light and he knew the bridge would be a bold player in this epic amphitheater. Morrow’s Art Deco elements and vertical fluting motif in the anchorages, pylons, towers and railings bisect light and shadow affirming bridge as idea and sculpture. Fog-shrouded yellow lighting, earthy paint, and detail growing smaller skyward transform the bridge into one of the world’s largest environmental sculptures and icons of human and environmental connection. When the cables and suspenders were spun, strung and tied the roadway was suspended above 2,300,000 cu. ft. of water per second rushing through the Golden Gate. Poetry in steel, a giant harp in the western sky spanned the Golden Gate.