George Rickey Prints and Multiples

American, 1907-2002

GEORGE RICKEY Born: South Bend, Indiana, 1907 Died: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2002 George Rickey spent over five decades committed to the creation of poetic and precisely-calibrated sculptures that he referred to as his “useless machines.” Of all the natural forces, it was the wind’s movement that most captured Rickey’s imagination. He once wrote, “The artist finds waiting for him, as subject, not the trees, not the flowers, not the landscape, but the waving of branches and the trembling of stems, the piling up or scudding of clouds, the rising and setting and waxing and waning of heavenly bodies.” Rickey began to devote himself to the investigation of motion in sculpture, producing dynamic works using simple geometric forms such as lines, squares, rectangles, circles, etc., in which his prodigious understanding of engineering and mechanics is demonstrable. Though the works enthusiastically collaborate with the interference of wind currents in their environment, the speed of their random movements are tempered by simple spacing and fixed arrangement of the elements. The relationship of the parts remains the same, but the dance is always changing. It is this tension that defines Rickey’s sculptures. “I think it’s important to make art that you have to wait for,” said the artist. As such, the works are able to oscillate gracefully through an infinite number of compositional iterations, engaging all aspects of the natural world around them—wind, light, rain, fog, or the lack thereof. Much of Rickey’s work was created in his studio in East Chatham, New York, where he settled in 1960. Prior to that time, the artist had lived and taught in Bloomington, IN; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY, and throughout the Midwest. His childhood, youth and college years were spent in Scotland and Britain. Aside from East Chatham he had studios in Berlin, Germany and Santa Barbara, CA. George Rickey's work is included in the permanent collections of over 150 museums worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, among many others. Key exhibitions include George Rickey: Monumental Sculptures on Park Avenue, New York (2021); A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey, Indianapolis Art Center, Indiana (2009); George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, A Retrospective, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids and McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (2007-09); George Rickey: Kinetische Skulpturen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (2003) and George Rickey – Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1979).

Artist: George Rickey

George RickeyUntitled, 1971

$1,500

Untitled

By George Rickey

Located in New York, NY

Lithograph on white Arches Cover paper. One of 5 artist's proofs, aside from an edition of 35. Signed by the artist, dated and numbered, in Roman numerals, V/V in pencil, lower rig...

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1970s Abstract Geometric George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

George RickeyGeorge Rickey, Lithograph, Signed and Limited Edition

$407

George Rickey, Lithograph, Signed and Limited Edition

By George Rickey

Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE

George Rickey South Bend 1907 - 2002 Saint Paul Untitled Lithograph Signed in pencil lower left Limited edition 88/150 Sheet size: approx. 37 x 27.5 cm

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1980s Abstract Geometric George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

George RickeyApollo and Daphne, 1947

$3,000

Apollo and Daphne

By George Rickey

Located in New York, NY

A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early etching, aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper. Colors are strong with crisp, ...

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1940s Kinetic George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Robyn DennyGenerations 8, 1978

$1,301

H 21 in W 28 in

Generations 8

By Robyn Denny

Located in London, GB

Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper 53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins) Edition of 35, Set of 24 Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35 Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London Prin...

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1970s Abstract Geometric George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching, Aquatint

Zao Wou-KiZao Wou-ki - Moments - Original Aquatint with Hand-Signed Justification, 1996

$1,862

H 13.47 in W 12.01 in D 0.04 in

Zao Wou-ki - Moments - Original Aquatint with Hand-Signed Justification

By Zao Wou-Ki

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Zao Wou-ki - Moments - Original Aquatint Edition of 130 Dimensions: 34.2 x 30.5 cm Vellum paper BFK Rives 1996 Bibliography: Jørgen Ågerup, Zao Wou-Ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue ...

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1990s Abstract Expressionist George Rickey Prints and Multiples

Sam FrancisUntitled, 1990

$9,000

H 33.75 in W 27 in

Untitled

By Sam Francis

Located in London, GB

Aquatint, monoprint with chine collé 85.7 x 68.6 cms (33 3/4 x 27 ins) Edition of 19 variants

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1990s Abstract George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Monoprint

Piet MondrianComposition II in Red, Blue and Yellow - Lithograph

$232

H 14.97 in W 12.6 in

Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow - Lithograph

By Piet Mondrian

Located in Paris, IDF

Piet MONDRIAN (after) Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow Lithograph (8 colors) Printed signature in the plate Justified HC (Hors commerce) Blind stamp of the editor in the marg...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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George RickeyTwo Lines Excentric Jointed with Six Angles, Offset lithograph signed/N 18/30, 1986

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H 39 in Dm 24.5 in

Two Lines Excentric Jointed with Six Angles, Offset lithograph signed/N 18/30

By George Rickey

Located in New York, NY

George Rickey Large: 39 inches (vertical) x 24.5 inches (horizontal) Two Lines Excentric Jointed with Six Angles, 1986 Limited Edition Offset Lithograph (Hand Signed and Numbered). ...

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1980s Kinetic George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

George RickeySculptural Study, Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, hand signed Hors Commerce (HC), 1974

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H 11.5 in W 5.75 in

Sculptural Study, Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, hand signed Hors Commerce (HC)

By George Rickey

Located in New York, NY

George Rickey Sculptural Study, 1974 Lithograph on Rives BFK paper. Signed in graphite on the lower front, with publishers' blind stamp. H.C. 11 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches Unframed Excellent mid 1970s lithograph by renowned American kinetic sculptor...

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1970s Abstract Geometric George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

George RickeyErker-Treffen 2, 1974

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H 14.97 in W 11.03 in

Erker-Treffen 2

By George Rickey

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1974 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 152/200 Publisher : Erker (St. Gallen) LCD4751

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1970s Abstract George Rickey Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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