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George RickeyTwo Open Rectangles Excentric1975
1975
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Kinetic sculpture by George Rickey.
Incised with the artist's signature, date 1975 and number 1/3 (on the base).
Dimensions:
minimum: 79 by 21 ⅜ by 10 in.
maximum: 79 by 80 by 10 in.
George Rickey Biography
American, 1907-2002
George Rickey was an American artist whose Kinetic Art sculptures poeticized the medium of steel in a transformative manner, as seen in his hallmark work Breaking Columns (1989). “The object was for the pieces to perform as they could, and I wanted their movement to be slow, unhampered, deliberate—but at the same time unpredictable,” Rickey once explained. “As for shape, I wanted only the most ordinary shapes—simple, hackneyed, geometrical. I wanted whatever eloquence there was to come out of the performance of the piece—never out of the shape itself.” Born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, IN, he grew up outside of Glasgow, where his father worked as an executive for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Studying history at Baillol College in Oxford, he received his formal art training under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Lhote and the Académie Moderne in Paris. Despite beginning as a painter, while serving in World War II for the United States, Rickey worked as mechanic for gunnery and aircraft. His time working with machinery, revived his childhood interest in mechanical systems, and he began producing simple moving sculptures after the war. Over the years, his works were exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, documenta III in Kassel, and commissioned for several public spaces around the world. The artist died at the age of 95 on July 17, 2002 in Saint Paul, MN.
- Creator:George Rickey (1907-2002, American)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 79 in (200.66 cm)Width: 80 in (203.2 cm)Depth: 10 in (25.4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU18114155102
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