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George Rickey Biography
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1907 |
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Born: South Bend, Indiana
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1921 - 1926 |
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Trinity College, Glenalmond, Scotland
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1926 - 1929 |
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Balliol College, Oxford, England
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1929 - 1930 |
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Académie L’hote and Académie Moderne, Paris, France
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1945 - 1946 |
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Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, New York
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1947 |
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Studied etching under Mauricio Lasansky, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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1948 - 1949 |
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Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
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1960 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship (renewed in 1961)
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1968 - 1969 |
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Stipendiat: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Berlin, West Germany
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1972 |
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Fine Arts Award, American Institute of Architects
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1974 |
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Elected to American Institute of Arts and Letters
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1986 |
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New York State Governor's Award, Albany, NY
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1987 |
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Elected to Akademie der Künste Berlin, West Germany
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Died: St. Paul, Minnesota
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Sculpture in the Streets, Downtown Albany Business Improvement District, Albany, NY (solo)
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, NY
Constructivists: Kenneth Snelson and George Rickey, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Glorious Century: Modern and Contemporary Art, 1910-2010, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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2010
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George Rickey: Important Works from the Estate, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo)
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2009 - 2010
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George Rickey: Arc of Development, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN (solo)
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2009
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A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN (solo)
Art in the Garden, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
As Time Goes By, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
The Art Show, rganized by the Art Dealer’s Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (with Maxwell Davidson Gallery)
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2008 - 2009
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Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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2007 - 2009
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George Rickey Sculpture: A Retrospective, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL; traveled to Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (solo)
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2008
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George Rickey, Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective, The McNay, Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, San Antonio, TX (solo)
George Rickey: An Evolution, Arts Council of Indianapolis, IN (solo)
George Rickey: Selected Works from the George Rickey Estate, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo)
Shanghai Art Fair 2008, Shanghai MART, Shanghai, China. (with Marlborough)
Yaddo: Making American Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
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2006
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Deux Américains à Paris: Sculptures de George Rickey et Kenneth Snelson, Palais Royal, Paris, France (solo)
George Rickey Sculptures, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
George Rickey, in conjunction with the group exhibition, Momentum: Selections from the Kinetic Art Organization, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ (solo)
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2005
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Collection, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
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2004
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George Rickey: Retrospective, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Around the World in Forty Years, Department of States, Washington, DC
Sculptors Guild 2004-05, White Plains Library Plaza, White Plains, NY
Works and Days, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
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2003
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George Rickey - Kinetische Skulpturen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Kinetische Skulpturen 1956-2000, Verlag der Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Ein Rückblick als Stiftung, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
Interact/react, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
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2002
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Kunstpreis Finkenwerder 2002 - George Rickey, Airbus, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Paarungen - Künstlerische Positionen im Dialog, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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2001
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George Rickey: A Tribute, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
George Rickey: Defining the Fourth Dimension, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hand Hollow Fellows, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Modern Sculptures, Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan
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2000
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George Rickey, Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
George Rickey: A Retrospective 1958-2000, Soma Gallery, La Jolla, CA (solo)
Installation of Annular Eclipse V, organized by the City of New York Parks & Recreation, Park Avenue Malls Planting Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Art & Mathematics 2000, The Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery and Brooks Design Center, New York, NY; traveled to Koussevitzky Art Center, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Crossroads of American Sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Form and Movement in the 20th Century – Homage to Denise René, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Tsukuba, Japan
International Sculpture Festival: Contemporary American Sculpture, Casino Gardens, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Welded Sculpture of the 20th Century, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
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1999
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George Rickey: Maquettes and drawings related to Crucifera IV, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (solo)
Celebrating Sculpture – Personal Visions and Universal Themes: Aspects of American Sculpture Since 1945, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
World Artists At The Millennium, The United Nations Visitors Lobby, United Nations, New York, NY
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1998
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George Rickey, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium (solo)
Sculpture in the Garden 1998, The Renaissance Guild, The Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
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1997
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George Rickey - Motion and Silence, Galerie Dr. István Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
George Rickey: Master of Kinetic Sculpture - In Celebration of His 90th Year, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Important Early Sculptures 1951-65 - In Recognition of His 90th Year, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Schwebend - Heiter, Galerie Pels Leusden, Kampen/Sylt, Germany
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1996
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Lumiere et Mouvement, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
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1995
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George Rickey: Recent Sculpture - In grateful memory of Edie Rickey, 1924-1995 – generous friend, gentle mentor, and humorous humanist, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: a Southeast Region Exhibition, The White House, Washington, DC
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1994
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Rickey: Sieben Kinetische Skulpturen, Galerie Utermann, and Harenberg Verlag, Dortmund, Germany (solo)
Girouettes, Musee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
The Constructive Vocabulary, An American Vision, Galerie Dr. Istvân Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland
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1993
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A Dialogue in Steel and Air: George Rickey, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL (solo)
George Rickey in Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
Akademie 1993, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
In the Sculptor’s Landscape, Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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1992
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George Rickey in Berlin l967-l992, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
George Rickey: In Celebration of his 85th Year, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA (solo)
L'Art en Mouvement, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
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1991
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George Rickey: Art of Movement, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (solo)
Abstract Sculpture in America: 1930-1970, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
Schwerelos, Schloss Charlottenburg, Grosse Orangerie, Berlin, Germany
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1990
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George Rickey: Art of Movement, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (solo)
George Rickey - Sculptures l955-l990, Artcurial, Paris, France (solo)
Downtown Kinetic, USX Tower, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with Calder, Oppenheim, Borofsky Sculpture 90, Fendrick Galley, Washington, PA
Master Works Modern and Contemporary, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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1989
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George Rickey, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan (solo)
George Rickey - Important Sculpture, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
George Rickey: Two Exhibitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
In Celebration of Three Breaking Columns at Rotterdamse, Schouwburg, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Balancing Act, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
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1988
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3 Skulpturen von George Rickey in Köln, Moderne Stadt, Cologne, West Germany (solo)
George Rickey - Indoor/Outdoor Sculptures, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium (solo)
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1987
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George Rickey zum 80. Geburtstag, Galerie Pels Leusden, West Berlin, Germany. West Berlin, Germany; traveled to Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
George Rickey, In Celebration of his Eightieth Year, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA (solo)
George Rickey: Projects for Public Sculpture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (solo)
Two Lines Excentric Jointed with Six Angles, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, West Berlin, Germany
162nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Masters of Contemporary Sculptures, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Movement & Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Skulpturenboulevard – Kurfürstendamm - Kunst im öffentlichen Raum 1987, Kurfürstendamm, West Berlin, Germany
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1986
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George Rickey in Bryant Park, concurrent exhibitions at Maxwell Davidson Gallery and Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
An American Renaissance, Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Elders of the Tribe, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
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1985
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George Rickey in South Bend, Art Center of South Bend, Indiana University of South Bend, Saint Mary's College, and the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (solo)
New Otto Dix - George Rickey, Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art, Zürich, Switzerland
The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Bard College Center, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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1984
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George Rickey, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
George Rickey Kinetische Freiplastiken 1972-1984, Bauhaus-Archiv, West Berlin, Germany (solo)
George Rickey Recent Sculptures, Inkfish Gallery, Denver, CO (solo)
Zeit und Bewegung im Werk von George Rickey, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany (solo)
Citywide Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Masters of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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1983
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Minimalism to Expressionism, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Sculpture Veksølund 1983, Veksølund, Veksø, Denmark
Sculpture- The Tradition in Steel, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
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1982
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George Rickey - Kinetic Sculpture on Clydeside, Custom House Quay, St. Enoch Exhibition Centre and Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland. with the support of the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow District Council; traveled to Yorkshire Sculpture Park,Yorkshire, England; Manor House, Ilkley, England (solo)
George Rickey, New Orleans Plus 30, Art Gallery, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleands, LA (solo)
George Rickey: 30 Years of His Art, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
Group Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spielraum – Raumspiele, Der Alten Oper, Stadt Frankfurt, West Germany
The First International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, The University of Hawaii, Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
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1981 - 1982
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Bewegung, Real – Irreal, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, West Germany
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1981
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George Rickey, Gimpel-Hanover+Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
George Rickey, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (solo)
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1980
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George Rickey at Makler Gallery, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Arts Council of Great Britain and Rijksmuseum, Krõller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Pier+Ocean, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Urban Encounters – Art, Architecture Audience, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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1979
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George Rickey - Retrospective Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Skulpturen Material Technik, Amerika Haus, Berlin, West Germany (solo)
Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Selections from the McCrory Corporation Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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1978
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George Rickey, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan (solo)
George Rickey - Mobile Skulpturen, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Monuments and Monoliths – A Metamorphosis, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn Harbor, NY
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1977
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George Rickey, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY (solo)
George Rickey - Kinetische Skulpturen, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, West Germany (solo)
Systhema, Kunstmuseum Amos Anderson, Helsinki, Finland
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1976
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George Rickey - Kinetische Objekte Material und Technik, Kunsthalle der Stadt, Bielefeld, West Germany (solo)
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
American Welders 1950’s – 1960’s, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
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1975
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George Rickey, Fordham University Plaza at Lincoln Center and Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Sixty Years on the Arts Club Stage, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1974
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George Rickey, Galerie Espace NV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Sculpture of George Rickey, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (solo)
Monumenta A Biennial Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture, Monumenta Newport Inc., Newport, RI
The Making of a Museum: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
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1973
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George Rickey, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany (solo)
George Rickey, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
George Rickey, Nationalgalerie, West Berlin, Germany (solo)
George Rickey, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, West Germany
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1972
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Sculpture by George Rickey, shown in conjuction with the exhibition, Constructivist Tendencies, Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (solo)
Drawing in Space 19 American Sculptors, The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
The Non-Objective World, Annely Judy Fine Art, London, UK
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1971
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George Rickey Retrospective Exhibition 1951-71, UCLA Art Council and UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
11th International Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Show, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Monumental Sculpture for Public Spaces, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA
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1970
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Recent Kinetic Sculpture by George Rickey, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA (solo)
Kinetics, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Noguchi & Rickey & Smith, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
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1969
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George Rickey, Haus am Waldsee, West Berlin, Germany (solo)
Biennale 1969 Nürnberg – Konstruktive Kunst: Elemente und Prinzipien, Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, West Germany
International sculpture symposium, Expo ’70, Osaka, Japan
Nagare, Bill, Rickey, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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1968
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Mack Rickey, Halfmannshof, Gelsenkirchen, Germany (solo)
34’ Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia Biennale 1968, Venice, Italy
From Constructivism to Kinetic Art, Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI
Group Exhibition, Documenta IV, Kassel, West Germany
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1967
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Recent Kinectic Sculpture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art et Mouvement, Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Guggenheim International Exhibition 1967 – Sculpture from Twenty Nations, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Structures Lumière Mouvement 1=100, Denise René, Paris, France
Vom Konstruktivismus zur Kinetik 1917 bis 1967, Galerie Denise René - Hans Mayer, Krefeld, West Germany
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1966
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George Rickey: Sixteen Years of Kinetic Sculpture, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
Interview with Denise René, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Obelisk without an Eye, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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1965
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Aktuell 65 -Nouvelle Tendance-recherche continuelle, Galerie Aktuell, Bern, Switzerland
Amerikanische Plastik USA 20, Jahrhund, Deutsche Gesellschaft fûr Bildende Kunst (Kunstverein Berlin), Berlin, Germany. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, West Germany
Etats-Unis Sculptures du xx e Siècle, Musée Rodin, Paris, France
Icht und bewegung/kinetische kunst im garten: neue tendenzen der architektur, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Lumiere Mouvement et Optique, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
nul negentienhonderd vijf en zestig, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1964
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George Rickey: Kinetic Sculptures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
Documenta III Kassel ‘64, Documenta III, Kassel, West Germany. Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
George Rickey – Ulfert Wilke, The Art Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Mouvement 2, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
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1963
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George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (solo)
Sculpture in the open air, Battersea Park, London, UK
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1962
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George Rickey, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Hann Trier George Rickey, Altbau der Kunsthalle, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
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1961
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George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Bewogen Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. in cooperation with Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Rörelse I Konsten, Stockholm, Sweden
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1960
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Kinetic Sculpture: George Rickey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
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1959
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Recent Sculpture U.S.A., Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1958
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The New Landscape in Art and Science, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
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1957
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The Sphere of Mondrian, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Windblown Mobiles – Lovely Useless Motio, Amerika-Haus, Hamburg, West Germany
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1956
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Kinetic Sculpture and Machines, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (solo)
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1955
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George Rickey: Machines Kinetic Sculptures Mobiles, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
A selection of contemporary American Sculpture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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1954
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5th Annual Michiana Regional Art Exhibition, South Bend Art Association, South Bend, IN
Momentum Midcontinental 1948-1954, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
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1953
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Mobile Sculpture, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN (solo)
1953 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1952
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Forty-Fifth Annual Indiana Artists Exhibition, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN
One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA
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1951
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American Sculpture 1951, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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1949
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One Hundred and Eight American Drawings, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
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1948
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Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
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1947
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American Drawings for 1947, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
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1946
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Oil paintings and Sculpture, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
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1945
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Soldier Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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1940
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Art in a Democracy, American Artists Congress, New York, NY
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1935
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (solo)
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1933
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Caz-Delbo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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Am Justizzentrum, Cologne, Germany
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
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Bayerische Hypotheken-und Vechsel-Bank, AG, Munich, Germany
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Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany
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Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
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Gibbs Farm, Kaipara, New Zealand
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Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
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Henkel GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
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Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Kobe, Japan
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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, CA
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Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
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Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
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Kunsthalle der Stadt, Berlin, Germany
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Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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Moderne Galerie (Joseph Albers Museum), Quadrat-Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany
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Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
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Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
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Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
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Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Neu Perlach, Munich, Germany
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Neubau des Physikzentrums, Kiel, Germany
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Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
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Neues Medizinsches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany
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New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
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Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
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Olympiad of Art, Olympic Center, Seoul, South Korea
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Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
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Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany
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San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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Shizuoka Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
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Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Tate Gallery, London, England
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Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
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The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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The Sondra and Marvin Smalley Family Sculpture Garden, Bel-Air, CA
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The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Williams College Museum, Williamstown, MA
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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2011
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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
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2010
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Marlborough Chelsea. George Rickey: Important Works from the Estate. New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2010
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2009
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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
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2008
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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
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2004
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Davidson, Maxwell, III. George Rickey: The Early Works. Atglen: Schiffer Books, Ltd., 2004
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2002
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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
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2000
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Anonymous. Earth, Sky, and Sculpture: Storm King Art Center. Mountainville: Storm King Art Center, 2000
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1992
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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
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1988
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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)
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1987
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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
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1986
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Hobbs, Robert. The University of Iowa Museum of Art: 101 Masterworks. Iowa City: The Museum, 1986
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1985
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Siegel, Jeanne. Artwords, Discourse on the 60's and 70's. Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1985
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1982
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Henry, Clare. "George Rickey’s Kinetic Sculptures." Glasgow Herald
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1981
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Mahlow, Dietrich. l00 Jahre Metalplastik: l00 Years of Metal Sculpture. Frankfurt Am Main: Metall Gesellschaft A.G., 1981
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1980
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Gruen, John. "The Sculpture of George Rickey: Silent Movement Performing in a World of its Own." Art News, April 01, 1980
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1979
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Russel, John. "Art: 86 Mobiles by George Rickey." The New York Times
Wallach, Amei. "George Rickey: Kinetic Choreography in Steel." Newsday
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1977
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Rosenthal, Nan. George Rickey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977
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1976
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Armstrong, Thomas. 200 years of American Sculpture. New York: David R. Godine, 1976
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1972
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Kramer, Hilton. "The Irony of Constructivism." The New York Times, October 29, 1972
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1971
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Brown, Gordon. "George Rickey at Staempfli." Arts, June 01, 1971
Kainen, Jacob. "George Rickey's Moving Sculptures Display Elegance and Strength." The Washington Post, June 13, 1971
Shirey, David L. "George Rickey's Kinetic Constructions Are Shown." The New York Times, May 01, 1971
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1970
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Riedl, Peter Anselm. "George Rickey: Kinetische Objekte." In Werkmonographien zur Bildenden Kunst, Nr. 141. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1970
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1969
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Anonymous. "Engineer of Movement." Time Magazine, November 04, 1969
Goldwater, Robert. What is Modern Sculpture?. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1969
Roters, Eberhard. George Rickey- ein Portrat. Bericht aus Berlin: Kunst 5, 1969
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1967
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Seldis, Henry J. "Sculpture of the Sixties." The Los Angeles Times, June 04, 1967
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1965
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Rose, Barbara. "Looking at American Sculpture." Artforum, February 01, 1965
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1964
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Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Sculpture. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964
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1962
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Secunda, Arthur. "Two Motion Sculptors: Tinguely and Rickey." Artforum, June 01, 1962
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1959
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Adlow, Dorothy. "Rickey's Kinetic Sculptures." The Christian Science Monitor, January 17, 1959
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