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George Rickey

(American, 1907–2002)

quadrilateral with four lines by george rickey

George Rickey

Quadrilateral With Four Lines, 1976

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Biography

Timeline

1907
Born: South Bend, Indiana
1921 - 1926
Trinity College, Glenalmond, Scotland
1926 - 1929
Balliol College, Oxford, England
1929 - 1930
Académie L’hote and Académie Moderne, Paris, France
1945 - 1946
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, New York
1947
Studied etching under Mauricio Lasansky, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1948 - 1949
Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
1960
Guggenheim Fellowship (renewed in 1961)
1968 - 1969
Stipendiat: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Berlin, West Germany
1972
Fine Arts Award, American Institute of Architects

Exhibitions

2017
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
George Rickey: Sculpture from the Estate, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
2016
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
George Rickey: Selected Works from the Estate 1954-2000, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
Large Sculptures, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States
2015
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
George Rickey: Esculturas, Galeria Marlborough, Barcelona, Spain (solo exhibition)
2013
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
George Rickey: Sculpture from the Estate, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
2012
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
George Rickey, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Abstraction : What is Real, Edelman Arts, New York, New York, United States
2011 - 2012
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
The Art of a Kinetic Sculptor, Sculpture in the Streets, Albany, New York (solo exhibition)
2011
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Sculpture in the Streets, Downtown Albany Business Improvement District, Albany , New York , United States (solo exhibition)
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, United States
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States
Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Glorious Century: Modern and Contemporary Art, 1910-2010, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California, United States
Constructivists: Kenneth Snelson and George Rickey, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States
2010
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
George Rickey: Important Works from the Estate, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
2009 - 2010
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2009-2010:
George Rickey: Arc of Development, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, United States (solo exhibition)
2009
George Rickey Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
George Rickey: An Evolution, Arts Council, Cultural Development Commission and the City of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (solo exhibition)
A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (solo exhibition)
Art in the Garden, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, United States
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States
Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, United States
As Time Goes By, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealer’s Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York, United States. (with Maxwell Davidson Gallery)

Public Collections

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Shizuoka Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Literature

2011
Hodara, Susan. "Celebrating a Connection to Three Collectors." The New York Times, July 08, 2011
Janario, Michael. "George Rickey Sculpture in the Streets of Albany." Times Union, July 20, 2011
Keyser, Tom. "Sculpture as jazz." Times Union, June 24, 2011
Keyser, Tom. "Sculpture as jazz." Times Union, June 24, 2011
Keyser, Tom. "Take time to ‘talk’ with a sculpture." Times Union, June 18, 2011
Murg, Stephanie. "Classic Modernism." Art + Auction June 2011, vol. XXXIV, no. 10, p.44
Ryce, Walter. "Two stunning Monterey Museum of Art exhibits break down the barrier between viewer and installation." Monterey County Weekly, May 05, 2011
Staff. "Connections: Kinetic Art." Off the Wall, July 16, 2011
Staff. "Vassar College’s Art Center Highlights Three Collectors and 48 Outstanding Works." Art Daily, June 26, 2011
Stump, Stacey. "George Rickey’s ‘The Art of a Kinetic Sculptor'." The Free George, July 18, 2011
2010
Marlborough Chelsea. George Rickey: Important Works from the Estate. New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2010
2009
Anonymous. "Citygarden the New ST. Louis Sculpture Park Opens to the Public." Art Knowledge News, July 03, 2009
Bauer, Marilyn. "George Rickey sculpture fines home in Vero Beach museum." TCPalm, May 07, 2009
Boneti, David. "Spectacular Citygarden is opening on schedule in St. Louis." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 28, 2009
Laneri, Raquel. "Why We Love—And Need—Public Art: From New York to Indianapolis, it transforms people as well as cities." Forbes, May 05, 2009
Marshall, Konrad. "Blowing in the Wind: Artist George Rickey’s Kinetic Sculptures were shaped by his time at IU." The Indianapolis Star, May 03, 2009
Marshall, Konrad. "Hoosier’s sculptures dedicated at City Market." The Indianapolis Star, May 05, 2009
Marshall, Konrad. "Q & A with Philip Rickey." The Indianapolis Star, May 03, 2009
Marshall, Konrad. "Steel that moves in breeze will follow city’s tire art." The Indianapolis Star, April 08, 2009
Ostrow, Saul. "George Rickey: Marlborough Chelsea and Maxwell Davidson." Art in America, no. 2, February 01, 2009, pp. 133-134
Pitcher, John. "Bright Future Ahead; Opening Sculpture Garden is only the beginning." Omaha World-Herald, June 07, 2009
Robertson, Jean, and Craig McDaniel. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980. 2nd ed.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 120
2008
Anonymous. "The McNay Mounts a Major Retrospective of the Kinetic Sculptures of George Rickey." Art Daily, October 20, 2008
Goddard, Dan R. "George Rickey’s moving sculptures make a stir in McNay Retrospective." My SA, October 19, 2008
Marshall, Konrad. "Next public art will be blowing in the wind: 10 kinetic sculptures by Indiana-born George Rickey to be in town May 5 to Sept. 7." Indystar, January 09, 2008
McLaughlin, Kathleen. "George Rickey public art arriving in downtown Indianapolis in May." Indianapolis Business Journal, January 09, 2008
McLaughlin, Kathleen. "UPDATE: Rickey was safe move for arts guru." Indianapolis Business Journal, November 20, 2008
Spiegelman, Willard. "A Modern Miscellany: The McNay Art Museum." The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2008 p. D15
2004
Davidson, Maxwell, III. George Rickey: The Early Works. Atglen: Schiffer Books, Ltd., 2004
2002
Anderson, Dennis, and Glenn Lowry. The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. New York: Rizzoli Internation Publishing, Inc., 2002
Antenucci Becherer, Joseph. Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the Frederick Meijer Gardens. Singapore: CS Graphics Pte., Ltd., 2002
2000
Anonymous. Earth, Sky, and Sculpture: Storm King Art Center. Mountainville: Storm King Art Center, 2000
1992
Anonymous. George Rickey in Berlin 1967 – 1992, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Phographie und Architektur Im Martin-Gropius Bau. Berlin: Ars Nicolai GmbH, 1992
1988
Goodman, Jonathan. "The Public Art of George Rickey." Arts Magazine, May 01, 1988
Gruen, John. "Artist’s Dialogue: George Rickey, Choreography of Steel." Architectural Digest, June 01, 1988
Tomii, Reiko. Between Two Continents: George Rickey, Kinetic Art and Constructivism, 1949-1968. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 (PhD dissertation)
1987
Langer, Werner. "Die Paradoxen Plastiken – George Rickey in der Villa Grisebach." Der Tagesspiegel
Raynor, Vivien. "George Rickey at the Neuberger: Movement and Balance." The New York Times
English (US)

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