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George Rickey was born on 6 June, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana, U.S., is an American kinetic sculptor (1907–2002). Discover George Rickey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 6 June, 1907
Birthday 6 June
Birthplace South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Date of death 17 July, 2002
Died Place Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1907

George Warren Rickey (June 6, 1907 – July 17, 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor.

Rickey was born on June 6, 1907, in South Bend, Indiana.

1913

When Rickey was still a child, his father, an executive with Singer Sewing Machine Company, moved the family to Glasgow, Scotland, in 1913.

They lived near the river Clyde, and George learned to sail around the outer islands on the family's 30 ft sailboat.

Rickey was educated at Glenalmond College and received a degree in history from Balliol College, Oxford, with frequent visits to the Ruskin School of Drawing.

He spent a short time traveling Europe and, against the advice of his father, studied art in Paris at Académie L'Hote and Académie Moderne.

He then returned to the United States and began teaching at the Groton School, where among his many students was future National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy.

After leaving Groton, Rickey worked at various schools throughout the country as part of the Carnegie Corporation Visiting Artists/Artists in Residence program (partially funded by the Works Progress Administration).

His focus was primarily on painting.

While taking part in these programs, he painted portraits, taught classes, and created a set of murals at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.

1934

He maintained an art studio in New York from 1934 to 1942, when he was drafted.

Rickey's interest in things mechanical re-awakened during his wartime work in aircraft and gunnery systems research and maintenance.

Following his discharge, he studied art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts and later at the Chicago Institute of Design, funded by the G.I. Bill.

He taught art at variety of colleges, including Muhlenberg College.

While at Muhlenberg, he was commissioned by J. I. Rodale to illustrate an edition of Anton Chekhov's The Beggar and Other Tales.

Rickey later moved on to Indiana University South Bend.

There, he encountered and was inspired by the work of David Smith.

Rickey turned from painting to creating kinetic sculpture.

Rickey combined his love of engineering and mechanics by designing sculptures whose metal parts moved in response to the slightest air currents.

1951

His first sculpture was shown in New York in 1951 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art group show American Sculpture 1951.

The Museum of Modern Art, in New York purchased his Two Lines Temporal I, after Alfred Barr, MOMA's then director, had seen it at the exhibition Documenta III in Kassel, Germany.

Rickey's sculptures can now be seen in major museums in the US and in most European capitals, Japan, and New Zealand.

His work is often compared to the mobiles of Alexander Calder, but while Calder used organic, playful forms, Rickey's European lineage is more closely related to the Constructivist principles of geometric engineering.

1967

In 1967, he wrote Constructivism – origins and evolution, published by George Braziller, Inc., New York.

In works such as Two Open Triangles Up Gyratory, Rickey's two wind driven elements (engineered to withstand winds of 80 mph) provide an endless series of combined, almost dance like, shapes and movements.

Rickey mastered not only ordered predictable movements, but also mastered methods of controlling both the speed and tempo of similar objects to respond more randomly, such as in his work Four Open Rectangles Diagonal Jointed Gyratory V.

Much of his work was created in his studio in East Chatham, New York, where he moved after taking a position as a professor of art (sculpture) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

1972

His kinetic sculpture titled Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyratory Up, Variation III was a central element of the Rensselaer campus from 1972.

It is now located in Zurich, Switzerland, at the headquarters of UBS.

This sculpture was known as the Crinatoid when it was located on the Rensselaer campus on long term loan.

It was removed after Rickey and Rensselaer could not agree on a purchase price.

Rickey also lived and worked in Berlin for many years, following the Documenta III art show.

His studio time was spent constructing sculpture and preparing for exhibitions in Europe.

In Rickey's words the city was like a "cocoon" in the middle of communist East Germany, with a lively and advanced social and cultural life which he partook in fully.

During this time he received numerous Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees.

1979

In 1979 he had a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Rickey's sculptures are on permanent exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Indiana University Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, and at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY, and many other institutions.

1985

In 1985, George Rickey had a major retrospective in South Bend, Indiana, the place of his birth.

His sculptures were installed outside (and inside) of the South Bend Art Center, and also at the Snite Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

Rickey gave a presentation of his work at the Snite.