The Bibliography published herein is an excerpt from
the hardcover book published in conjunction with the
Vero Beach Art Museum exhibition:
George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, A Retrospective
©2007
The forward was written by the book’s general editor
Lucinda Gedeon. Editors are Ellen Feldman and Birgit
Mieschonz. The Chronology, including Bibliography and
list of Public Works was compiled by Birgit Mieschonz.
Valerie Fletcher wrote the 22 page essay that sets the
tone for the book, and Philip Rickey, President of the
George Rickey Foundation, provides further insight into
the life and mind of George Rickey.
The complete book is a comprehensive and invaluable
George Rickey resource, available for purchase at
Amazon.com and other online booksellers.
© George Rickey Foundation
www.GeorgeRickey.org
Addendum
Since the 2007 publication of the book published in conjunction with the Vero Beach
Art Museum show, George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective, the George
Rickey Foundation has continued to actively engage with museums, galleries,
collectors, and public art enthusiasts worldwide.
Our mission is to educate and connect people to the kinetic sculpture of George
Rickey, using the vast collection of images, films, and writings about and by George.
Following is the addendum of a few notable George Rickey events that have
occurred after the publication.
Philip Rickey, President
George Rickey Foundation
One Man Shows
2007-2009
George Rickey Sculpture: A Retrospective,
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach,
Florida; Companion publication of
illustrated monograph, published by the
University of Washington Press. Exhibition
organized by Lucinda Gedeon, Ph.D.,
Director, Vero Beach Museum. 2007.
Debra Bricker Balken: George Rickey and
The Poetry of Space, and by Werner L.
Feibes, Remembrances of a Great Artist:
George Rickey.
The Retrospective exhibition also traveled
to:
A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey,
Exhibition at Indianapolis Art Center,
Indianapolis, IN. Illustrated checklist.
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture
Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2007.
Marion Koogle McNay Art Museum, San
Antonio, Texas.2008-2009
2008
George Rickey: Selected Works from
the George Rickey Estate, Marlborough,
Chelsea, New York, NY. 2008. Illustrated
catalogue, checklist, and biography, with
essays by Debra Bricker Balken: George
Rickey and The Poetry of Space, and by
Werner L. Feibes, Remembrances of a
Great Artist: George Rickey.
George Rickey, Selected Sculptures
from the Estate, Maxwell Davidson
Gallery, New York, NY. Illustrated catalog,
checklist, and biography, with essays by
2009
George Rickey: An Evolution, Public
exhibition with Arts Council of
Indianapolis,
Indianapolis
Cultural
Development Commission, City of
Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana. Foldout catalogue with public/gallery map,
checklist.
2009-2010
Innovation: George Rickey Kinetic
Sculpture, South Bend, Indiana.
A series of Rickey related exhibitions:
Rickey Trail, organized by the City of
South Bend/The Community Foundation
of St. Joseph County, outdoor work;
George Rickey: Arc of Development,
South Bend Museum of Art, indoor work
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and garden sculpture, illustrated catalog,
essay by Valerie Fletcher, Senior Curator
of Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC,
checklist
2012
Passages of Light and Time: George
Rickeys Life in Motion, The Snite Museum
of Art, The University of Notre Dame,
permanent collection, Illustrated catalog,
text by Shannon Kephart, checklist,
bibliography.
Origins of Kinetic Art (from Studio
International, London, February 1967) .
Rickey Estate and Marlborough Gallery,
NY, contributing
George Rickey, Galerie Michael Haas,
Berlin, Germany, Illustrated catalogue,
chronology, text by George Rickey
2013
Abstraction in the Public Sphere: New
Approaches, A Symposium in Celebration
of George Rickey, The Snite Museum of
Art, The University of Notre Dame
George Rickey Sculpture From The
Estate, Marlborough Gallery, New York,
Illustrated catalog, essay by Philip Rickey
2010
Group shows:
George Rickey Important Works from
the Estate, Marlborough Chelsea, New
York, NY, 2/18-3/20, Catalog, illustrated,
biography, essay by Alexandra AndersonSpivy
2008
Bijoux d’artistes, L’art vous va si bien,
La Piscine, Roubaix, France. Illustrated
catalog., page 91
Exhibition also traveled to:
2011
Fundacao Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon,
Portugal,
George Rickey Indoor/Outdoor. Exhibition
by Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York,
NY.
Rites of Spring, Art in the Gardens,
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Constructivists: Kenneth Snelson +
George Rickey, Marlborough Gallery, New
York, Illustrated catalog, with essay by
Philip Rickey, Reflections on a Friendship:
George Rickey and Kenneth Snelson.
Yaddo, Making American Culture, New
York Public Library, New York, NY. Book,
edited by Micki McGee, illustrated,
published by Columbia University Press
2011-12
Sculpture in Motion, Atlanta Botanical
Garden, Atlanta, GA, Illustrated catalog
with introduction by Mary Pat Matheson,
Executive Director
The Art of a Kinetic Sculptor, Sculpture
in the Streets, The Bender Family
Foundation and the Downtown Albany
Business Improvement District, Albany,
NY. Illustrated catalogue, biographical
text
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2008-09
Outside In, Celebrating the 20th
Anniversary of the Seoul Olympic Games,
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SOMA Museum of Art, and Laurence
Geoffreys Ltd., Seoul, South Korea,
Illustrated catalog
Rites of Spring: 20th Anniversary Season,
Art in the Gardens, LongHouse Reserve,
Easthampton, NY, Opening, Catalog,
illustrated
2009
A Common Canvas, Post Office Murals,
The State Museum of Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, PA
Constructivists: Kenneth Snelson +
George Rickey, Marlborough Gallery, New
York, Illustrated catalog, with essay by
Philip Rickey, Reflections on a Friendship:
George Rickey and Kenneth Snelson.
Blickachsen 7, Bad Homburg, Germany
Illustrated catalog, list of artists,
forewords by Roland Koch, MinisterPresident of Hesse, Ursula Jungherr,
Mayer of Bad Homburg, and Christian
K. Scheffel. Essay by Joseph Antenucci
Becherer, Director and Curator, Frederik
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
2012
Independent Visions, Sculpture in the
Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta,
GA, Catalog, illustrated, organized by
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2010
50th Anniversary Year, Carl Solway
Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Rites of Spring, George Rickey: 5 Kinetic
Works, LongHouse Reserve, East
Hampton, NY, May-October, Illustrated
catalog
Sculptors’ Drawings and Works on Paper,
Pangolin London & Kings Place Gallery,
London, England,8/31-10/12, fully
illustrated catalogue
Grass Grows by Itself, Marlborough
Chelsea, New York, NY, invitation, list of
artists, essay by Sima Familant
2013
Confluence. Sculpture Now - The Mount,
Lenox, MA,
2010-11
sculpture - twelve independent visions,
Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY,
invitation, list of artists
Public Collections:
2011-12
2011
The Road Taken: A Special Exhibition
to Celebrate Our 20th Anniversary in
Naples, Marianne Friedland Gallery,
Naples, FL, Opening, illustrated catalog.
Rickey Estate and Marlborough Gallery,
New York, NY, contributing
Double L Excentric Gyratory II, Inaugural
gift of the Class of 1961 Public Art Fund,
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
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CHRONOLOGY
1907
1929
Born South Bend, IN, June 6, to Walter Rickey, mechanical
engineer who worked for Singer Sewing Machine
Company, and Grace Landon Rickey, an early graduate
of Smith College; third of six children, only boy
1913
Rickey family moves to Helensburgh, Scotland
George at 6 1⁄2 months,
South Bend, IN, 1907
Clarendon, Helensburgh, Scotland
Rickey family residence, 1920-35
1917-21
Studies modern drawing and painting at the Académie
L’Hote and Académie Moderne, Paris
Teaches English at the Gardiner School, Paris
1930
Accepts teaching position at Groton School,
Massachusetts
Attends Larchfield School, Helensburgh, Scotland
Travels to Heidelberg, then England; while crossing
English Channel, meets future first wife, Susan Luhrs
1921
1933
Begins secondary-school education at Trinity College,
Glenalmond, Scotland; influenced by teacher George
Lyward
Leaves Groton and moves to New York City; marries
Susan Luhrs at Riverside Church
Spends September to February, 1934 in Paris and travels
through France and Spain
1925
Cruises the Mediterranean with Captain David Bone,
brother of artist Muirhead Bone
Meets Alice B. Toklas in Gertrude Stein’s Paris apartment;
also meets Delores Vanetti, with whom he remains
close friends
1926
Returns to New York City, where he has first solo exhibition of Paintings at Caz-Delbo Gallery
Graduates from Trinity College, Glenalmond, Scotland
Begins study of modern history at Balliol College,
Oxford, England
George on family cutter, Thora
Firth of Lorne, Scotland, 1921
Receives B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, England
1927
Crosses the Atlantic with Captain David Bone (does so
again the following year)
1928
Visits Heidelberg, studying and living in student housing
Attends evening classes at the Ruskin School of
Drawing, Oxford, England
Visits Paris for the first time
1934-42
Maintains studio in New York City
1935
Father, Walter Rickey, dies in a car accident outside of
Paris (find date)
First solo museum exhibition of paintings, Denver Art
Museum, Colorado
1936
Works for three months as editorial assistant at
Newsweek
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1937
1946
Serves as artist-in-residence, Olivet College, Olivet, MI
(on a Carnegie grant)
Returns to teaching at Muhlenberg College; becomes
chairman of Art Department
1938
Participates in group exhibition “Oil Paintings and
Sculpture,” Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Begins fresco mural project for Olivet College
George working on study for Knox
College Mural project, 1940
photo: Perry Gliessman
Meets Laura Verplank, Charles Fiske, and Bill Dole
Travels throughout Midwest on educational tour for the
Carnegie Corporation
Marriage to Susan Luhrs ends in divorce
Participates in group exhibitions: Isaac Delgado Museum
of Art, New Orleans now New Orleans Museum of Art;
also 1948, 1959, 1961); “American Drawings for 1947,”
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; “Ohio
Valley Oil and Watercolor Show,” Ohio University, Athens,
OH; “Ninth Annual West Virginia Regional Exhibition,”
Parkersburg Fine Art Center, Parkersburg, WV
1940
1948
Serves as director of Kalamazoo Institute of Art,
Kalamazoo, MI
Leaves position at Muhlenberg College; teaches at the
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Artist-in-residence at Knox College, Galesburg, IL (on
Carnegie grant); begins mural there
Studies design at the Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
Paints mural at post office in Selinsgrove, PA
Travels to Mexico with Ulfert Wilke and Laura Verplank,
and meets artist Lyonel Feininger
Completes mural at Olivet College
Participates in group exhibition “Art in a Democracy,”
American Artists Congress, New York City
1949
Travels through Europe for seven months
Participates in group exhibition “One Hundred and Eight
American Drawings,” Albany Institute of History and
Art, Albany, NY
1941
Completes mural at Knox College
Travels to Mexico with sister Alison
Receives M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, England
Moves to Pennsylvania; organizes Art Department at
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
George Rickey, Self Portrait,
oil on canvas, c. 1942
Marries Edith (Edie) Leighton at Christ Church, New York
City; honeymoons in Woodstock, NY
Studies etching under Mauricio Lasansky, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1939
George working on Knox
College Mural project, 1940
1947
Accepts a position as associate professor of fine arts,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1950
Begins making sculpture seriously
1942 - 45
Drafted and serves in US Army Air Corps; makes first
mobile sculptures
Two-person exhibition “George Rickey Moving Sculpture
in Glass; Reginald Neal Paintings,” Associated American
Club, Chicago, IL
Visits artist Mark Tobey in Seattle, Washington, WA
1943
Travels to New York on leave; visits Woodstock
1945
Studies art history at Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University, on G.I. Bill
Participates in a group exhibition “Soldier Art,” National
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
George and Edie, wedding
day, 1947
1951
Participates in group exhibitions: “Forty-fourth Annual
Indiana Artist Exhibition,” John Herron School of Art,
Indianapolis, IN (also 1952, 1954); “Fifth Old Northwest
Territory Art Exhibit,” Illinois State Fairgrounds,
Springfield, IL; “American Sculpture 1951,” Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City; “Contemporary American
Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,” Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York City (also 1953,
1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1983)
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1959
Spends summer at Camp Treetops, Lake Placid, NY;
invents Mobi Kit
Philip Leighton Rickey is born in New Orleans, LA
Participates in group exhibition “One Hundred and Fortyseventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,”
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA, (also 1954, 1956)
George with artist Mark Tobey,
Seattle, WA, 1950
First contact with artist David Smith at Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
1953
Stuart Ross Rickey is born in Bloomington, IN
Participates in group exhibition “American Sculpture,”
Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit, ME
First solo museum exhibition of sculpture, “Mobile
Sculpture,” John Herron School of Art Museum,
Indianapolis, IN
Edie with first son, Stuart, (center)
Cola and Bernard Heiden (left);
grandparents, James and Annie
Leighton (right), 1953
Solo exhibition: The Little Gallery, Louisville, KY
1954
Spends first summer with family at Hand Hollow, East
Chatham, NY
1960
Moves with family permanently to Hand Hollow, East
Chatham, NY
Awarded first Guggenheim Fellowship; takes sabbatical
from Tulane University
Travels through Midwest
Spends part of the summer with family in Santa Barbara;
teaches at University of California, Santa Barbara; where
Bill Dole serves as head of art department; the Rickey and
Dole families remain close friends throughout their lives
Participates in group exhibitions: “Fifth Annual Regional
Art Exhibition,” South Bend Art Association, South Bend,
IN; “Momentum Mid-continental 1948-54,” Art Institute
of Design, Chicago, IL (also 1955)
Solo exhibitions: “Kinetic Sculptures of George Rickey,”
Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA; “Kinetic Sculpture—
George Rickey,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa
Barbara, CA
1955
Participates in group exhibitions: “New Sculpture Now,”
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, and Smith
College, Northampton, MA; “A Sampling of Contemporary
Painting and Sculpture,” Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Texas;
“Paintings, Sculpture & Drawing from the Collection of
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick B. McGinnis,” DeCordova Museum,
Lincoln, MA
Resigns from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
George, second son Philip, Edie
and Stuart, East Chatham, NY, 1959
Participates in group exhibitions: “Fifth Annual Drawing
and Small Sculpture Show,” Ball State Teachers College
Art Gallery, Muncie, IN; “The New Landscape in Art and
Science,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (traveling exhibition organized by American Federation of Art); “Recent
Sculpture U.S.A,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (travels
to The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, California; City Art Museum of
St. Louis, MO; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA)
Solo exhibition, Kraushaar Galleries, New York City (also
1959, 1961)
Becomes chairman (1955-1959) of the Art Department
and professor of art (1955-1961), Tulane University, New
Orleans, LA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, acquires
Windflower I
1956
Solo exhibition, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art (now New
Orleans Museum of Art), New Orleans, LA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, acquires
Diptych—The Seasons I
1961
1957
Spends spring and summer with family at American
Academy in Rome, Italy
First exhibition of sculpture in Europe at Amerika-Haus,
Hamburg, Germany
Participates in group exhibition “Now in New Orleans,”
The Riverside Museum, New Orleans, LA
Baltimore Museum of Art acquires Seesaw & Carousel, II
Guggenheim Fellowship renewed; takes second sabbatical
from Tulane and subsequently resigns
Begins teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY (1961-66); meets Roland Hummel, engineering
professor at the School of Architecture, and starts lifelong
collaboration
Participates in important international group exhibition
of kinetic art, “Bewogen Beweging,” at Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in cooperation with
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, and Louisiana
Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
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Participates in group exhibitions: “Mechanism and
Organism, an International Sculpture Exhibition,” New
School for Social Research, New York City; “Regional
Exhibition of Artists of the Upper Hudson,” Albany Institute
of History and Art, Albany, NY; “Magriel Collection of
American Drawings,” Isaac Delgado Museum of Art (now
New Orleans Museum of Art), New Orleans, LA
Meets Denis René and shows sculpture at her gallery
in Paris
Begins work on book, Constructivism
George with artist Naum
Gabo, c. 1963
Solo exhibition “George Rickey Recent Sculpture,” at
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (travels to Museum of
Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman)
1962
Solo exhibitions: “Rickey Kinetische Sulpturen (Sculpture in
Motion),” Galerie Springer, West Berlin, Germany (travels
to Altbau der Kunsthalle, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande
und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, West Germany); “Rickey,”
Primus-Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape III, 1964, at Documenta III,
Kasel, Germany, 1964
Two-person exhibition, “George Rickey Mobiles, Kurt
Kranz Kinetische Graphik,” Galerie Anna Roepcke,
Wiesbaden, West Germany
Mother, Grace Landon Rickey, dies March 22 in
Schenectady, NY
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey Kinetic Sculptures,”
Berkshire Art Center, Pittsfield, MA, and Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago, IL; “George Rickey,” Hopkins Center,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and Williams College
Museum, Williamstown, MA
1965
Participates in group exhibitions: “Aktuel 65-Nouvelle
Tendance-recherche continuelle,” Galerie Aktuel, West
Berlin, Germany; “Kinetic and Optic Art Today,” AlbrightKnox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; “nul negentienhonderd vijf en zestig,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; “Zero avant-garde,” Galleria del Cavallino,
Venice, Italy; “Art et Mouvement,” Tel Aviv Museum, Tel
Aviv, Israel; “Etats-Unis Sculptures du XXe Siècle,” Musée
Rodin, Paris; “licht und bewegung/kinetische kunst im
garten: neue tendenzen der architektur,” Kunsthalle, Bern,
Switzerland; “Lumiere Mouvement et Optique,” Palais des
Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; “Art in
Science,” Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY;
“Amerikanische Plastik USA 20. Jahrhundert,” Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Kunstverein Berlin) and
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, West Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, acquires Two
Lines Temporal I
1966
Resigns from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;
leaves teaching to sculpt full-time
Travels to London
Serves as visiting artist, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Participates in group exhibition “Sculpture in the Open
Air,” Battersea Park, London (twenty American sculptors
chosen by the Museum of Modern Art)
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey Sixteen Years of Kinetic
Sculpture,” Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; “Lines and
Planes,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Visits Naum Gabo and Josef Albers in Connecticut
Participates in group exhibitions: “Directions in Kinetic
Sculpture,” University Art Museum, University of
California at Berkeley, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
California; “Kinetic Currents,” San Francisco Museum of
Art, San Francisco, CA; “Twentieth-Century Sculpture,”
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque; “Seven Decades—Cross Currents in Modern
Art,” Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York City; “Sculptures
of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller,” Rijksmuseum KröllerMüller, Otterlo, The Netherlands; Scuola Grande di San
Teodoro, Salone Internazionale Dei Giovani, Venice, Italy;
“Outdoor Sculpture ’66,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln,
MA; “Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Max
Wasserman,” Hayden Gallery and Courtyard,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;
“Contemporary Art—Acquisitions 1962-1965,” AlbrightKnox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Writes and publishes “Morphology of Movement”
Participates in conference on architectural uses of
stainless steel at Lehigh University, Department of Fine
Arts, Bethlehem, PA
Major installation: Twenty-Four Lines, Kunsthalle,
Hamburg, Germany
George Rickey, drawing, 1966
Whitney Museum of American Art acquires Omaggio a
Bernini II
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, acquires Peristyle—
Five Lines
1963
Two Lines Temporal I, 1964, at
Documenta III, Kasel Germany,
1964. photo: Günther Becker
Participates in group exhibitions: “Dokumenta III,” Kassel,
Germany; “Zero=0=nul,”Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands; “Mouvement 2,” Galerie Denise Rene, Paris
(also 1966, 1967); “Movement,” Hanover Gallery, London;
“On the Move,” Howard Wise Gallery, New York City
1964
Visit from Alfred Barr and Dorothy Miller of Museum of
Modern Art, New York City, in East Chatham, NY
Solo exhibitions: Staempfli, New York City (also 1965, 1967,
1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975); “George Rickey/Kinetic
Sculptures,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
DC, acquires Three Red Lines
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, acquires 3 Lines—
Eighteen Feet
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands,
acquires Two Vertical Three Horizontal Lines
1967
Space Churn with Spheres,
1969-70, Neue Heiman Bayern,
Munich-Neu Perlach
George with Space Churn
with Squares, 1969, made for
National Memorial Museum
Expo, Osaka, Japan
George with Werner Haftmann,
Berlin, West Germany, 1969
Participates in group exhibitions: “From the Informal to
the New Structure,” 34 Biennale Internationale d’Arte,
Venice, Italy; “Plus by Minus: Today’s Half-Century,”
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; “Documenta IV,”
Kassel, West Germany; “From Constructivism to Kinetic
Art,” London Arts—Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI
Installs Four Lines Oblique Gyratory, commissioned by
Henckel GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Regents Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara
1969
Publishes book, Constructivism (Braziller)
Travels to Paris, returns to United States, then travels to
Amsterdam, Munich, and Frankfurt
Solo exhibition, “Recent Kinetic Sculpture,” Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, MN
Participates in group exhibitions: “Slow-Motion: An
Exhibition of Kinetic Art,” Douglas College, Rutgers, State
University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; “Licht
Bewegung Farbe,” Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, West Germany
(also 1969); “Biennale 1969 Nürnberg—Konstruktive
Kunst: Elemente und Prinzipien,” Nürnberg, West Germany;
“American Sculpture of the Sixties,” Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; “Light, Motion and
Sound in the New Art,” Newark Museum of Art, Newark,
NJ; “Vom Konstruktivismus zur Kinetik 1917 bis 1967,”
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris/Hans Mayer, Krefeld Ostwall,
and Modern Art Museum, Munich, West Germany; “Art et
Mouvement,” Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montréal,
Canada; “Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors,”
Museum of Modern Art, New York City; “Sculpture in
Environment,” New York Public Library, New York City;
“Guggenheim International Exhibition 1967: Sculptures
from Twenty Nations,” The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York City (travels to Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Montréal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada); “Pittsburgh
International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and
Sculpture,” Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, PA
Works on model for project of large rectangles in
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey,” Haus am Waldsee,
West Berlin, Germany; “George Rickey” Museum
Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
“George Rickey Mobile Skulpturen,” Kunstverein,
Munich, West Germany
Participates in group exhibitions: “Kunst als Spiel, Spiel
als Kunst,” Stätische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West
Germany; “Report on the Sixties,” Denver Art Museum,
Denver, CO; “Sculptures by George Rickey and James
Seawright,” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Travels to Osaka to prepare for Expo 70, Japan
Three-person exhibition, “Nagare, Bill, Rickey,” Tokyo
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Major installations: Space Churn with Squares, National
Memorial Museum of Expo, Osaka, Japan; Four Squares in
a Square, Neue Nationalgalerie, West Berlin, Germany;
Two Lines Oblique, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia;
Space Churn—Steel, Eaglebrook School, Deerfield, MA;
Twenty-four Lines, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;
N-Lines Horizontal II Hanging, The Tate Gallery, London
1970
Major installation: Six Lines in Parallel Planes, State
Employment Building, Albany, NY
Begins to divide the year between East Chatham, NY,
and West Berlin, Germany
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, acquires Six
Lines in a T
Awarded honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Knox College,
Galesburg, IL
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, acquires Two Red
Lines II
Solo exhibition, Henry Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle
1968
Exhibits works from personal collection of Constructivism,
“Constructivist Tendencies: Selections from the Collection
of George and Edith Rickey,” University Art Gallery,
State University of New York, Albany
Receives stipend from DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst), Berliner Künstlerprogramm (German
Academic Exchange Service, Berlin Artists’ Program),
Berlin, West Germany (renewed 1969)
Lives in Berlin for part of year and acquires studio
(1968-95)
Solo exhibition, “George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture,” Fort
Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Participates in three-person exhibition, “Noguchi & Rickey
& Smith,” Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Major installations: Two Planes Vertical Horizontal II,
Yale University, New Haven, CT; Space Churn with Spheres,
Neue Heimat, Perlach, Munich, Germany
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Travels to Rotterdam, Bellingham, San Francisco,
Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Amsterdam,
London, and Glasgow
George, Edie and Christo, East
Chatham, NY, c. 1970
Solo exhibition, “George Rickey Retrospective Exhibition
1951-71,” UCLA Art Galleries, University of California, Los
Angeles (travels to Palm Springs Desert Museum,
California; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Wichita Art
Museum, Kansas; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln; The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois;
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The San Francisco
Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA)
Returns to West Berlin for six months on DAAD
scholarship
George Receives Award from
Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, 1973
Major installations: Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Two Lines Oblique, Whatcom
Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA; Two Planes
Vertical Horizontal II, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville,
NY; Three Squares Gyratory I, Glasgow University, Scotland;
Two Lines Oblique—Hebrew University Campus,
Jerusalem, Israel; Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory Down,
Klinikum, Freie Universität, Berlin, West Germany
1972
Receives Fine Arts Award from the American Institute
of Architects
Awarded honorary Doctor of Letters, Williams College,
Williamstown, MA
Moves Berlin studio to Bundesplatz
Rickey exhibition Gimpel Fils
Gallery, London, 1975
Solo exhibition, “Sculpture by George Rickey,” Museum
of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Participates in group exhibitions: “Drawing in Space:
19 American Sculptors,” The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY;
“The Non-Objective World, ”Annely Juda Fine Art, London
(travels to Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel, Switzerland; Galleria
Milano, Milan, Italy) Geplante Ausstellungen,” KestnerGesellschaft, Hannover, West Germany
Major installations: Two Planes Vertical Horizontal II,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Two Lines Oblique, San
Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1973
George with Olga Hirschhorn
and unidentified man.
Joseph Hirshhorn in background, c. 1974
Moves living quarters in Berlin to Bundesplatz
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey,” Kestner-Gesellschaft,
Hannover, West Germany; Nationalgalerie Berlin, West
Germany; Galerie Buchholz, Munich, West Germany
Spends summer with family in Venice, Italy, and spends
time in Maine
Receives Painting and Sculpture Medal, Skowhegan
School, Maine
Awarded Dillon Visiting Fellow Award, Groton School,
Massachusetts
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Schenectady, NY
Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark, acquires
One Up One Down Oblique IV (installed 1976)
The Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI, acquires Four Lines
Oblique Gyratory IV
1974
Awarded honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Indiana
University, Bloomington
Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters
(currently American Academy of Arts and Letters)
Solo exhibition, “Sculpture of George Rickey,”
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Participates in group exhibition, “Monumenta: A Biennial
Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture,” Newport, RI
Major installations: Two Lines Oblique, Empire State Plaza,
Albany, NY; Twelve Triangles Hanging, City Hall, Fort
Worth, TX
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, acquires Two
Lines Oblique Down
1975
Receives Indiana Arts Commission Award for Sculpture
Solo exhibition, “George Rickey,” Lincoln Center Plaza
and Staempfli, New York City; “George Rickey,” CSR Gallery,
New York City (travels to Gimpel & Hanover Galerie,
Zürich, Switzerland; Gimpel Fils Gallery, London)
Participates in group exhibition, Veranneman
Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Travels with family to Mexico
Major installations: Two Lines Oblique Down III, Museum
of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Two Vertical Two Horizontal Lines,
Schipol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Three
Squares Gyratory II, Münster, West Germany
1976
Travels to Honolulu and Tokyo
Solo exhibition, “George Rickey Kinetische Objekte,
Material and Technik,” Kunsthalle der Stadt Bielefeld,
West Germany
Participates in group exhibitions: “Kinetic Columns/Ulfert
Wilke Paintings,” E. P. Gurewitsch Works of Art, Inc., New
York City; “Bicentennial Celebration—Sculpture 76,”
Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT; Carl Schlosberg
Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA (also 1977); “A Selection of
American Art: The Skowhegan School 1946-1976,”
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “American
Welders 1959-1960,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York City;
“200 Years of American Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York City; “Mirages of Memory: 200
Years of Indiana Art,” Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
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George installing Four
Rectangles, Ulm, West Germany,
1977. photo: Achim Pahle
Berlin Studio, Berlin, West Germany, 1976
Major installations: Two Open Rectangles Excentric,
Federal Courthouse, Honolulu, HI; Two Lines Vertical—
Hakone, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; Two
Open Rectangles Excentric VI, Middlebury College,
Middelbury, VT
George, Edie and artist Max Bill
at Gilpel Fils Gallery, London, 1978
photo: Achim Pahle
1977
Travels to Berlin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Yucatan
Awarded Certificate of Appreciation in Art and
Architecture, General Services Administration
Nan Rosenthal’s book George Rickey published by Harry
N. Abrams, Inc.
Solo exhibitions: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City;
“George Rickey Drawings for Sculpture,” Williams College
Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Makler Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA (also 1980 and 1983); “George Rickey
Mobile Skulpturen,” Städtlische Galerie im Städelschen
Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany
Retrospective exhibition, Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York, NY, 1979
Solo exhibitions: Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL;
Galerie Kasahara, Osaka, Japan; “Sculpture by George
Rickey,” K & B Plaza, New Orleans, LA; George Rickey—
Mobile Skulpturen,” Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zürich,
Switzerland
Participates in group exhibitions: “Monuments and
Monoliths—A Metamorphosis,” Nassau County Museum
of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY; “Outdoor Sculptors of the
Berkshires,” Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA (also 1982,
1985, 1988, 1996, 1998, 2001); Maxwell Davidson
Gallery, New York City
Major installations: Four Open Rectangles Excentric, New
Orleans, LA (later relocated to Sidney and Walda Bestoff
Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art)); Two
Open Rectangles VI Square Section, Peoria Airport, Peoria,
IL; Two Open Rectangles Excentric VII, Triangular Section,
Bochum University, Berlin, West Germany
1979
Participates in group exhibitions: “Modern Sculpture—
American Works in West Coast Collections,” Mary Porter
Sesnon Art Gallery, College Five, University of California,
Santa Cruz; “Wave Hill Sculpture Garden Inaugural
Exhibition,” Wave Hill Center Sculpture Garden, Riverdale,
Bronx, NY; “Two Decades 1957-1977—American
Sculpture from Northwest Collections,” Museum of Art,
Washington State University, Seattle
Travels with sons Stuart and Philip to Crete
Major installations: Four Open Rectangles, Technische
Universität, Ulm, Germany; Two Lines Up Excentric V,
Kiel, Germany; Four Lines Oblique Gyratory—Square,
Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV
Participates in group exhibitions: “Constructivism and
the Geometric Tradition,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY (travels to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; La Jolla
Museum of Contemporary Art, California; Seattle Art
Museum, Washington; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA;
Nelson Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, KS; The
Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; Milwaukee Art Center,
Wisconsin); “Betty Asher’s Cups,” Asher Gallery, New
York City (also 1984)
1978
Travels to Copenhagen, Zürich, Berlin, and Paris
Awarded honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, York
University, Toronto, Canada
Receives Creative Arts Award Medal, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
Solo exhibitions: “Skulpturen Material Technik,” Amerika
Haus, Berlin, West Germany; Galerie Skulima, Berlin, West
Germany; “George Rickey Retrospective,” The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
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Major Installations: Two Conical Segments Gyratory
Gyratory II, Televisa Mexico, Mexico City; Two Rectangles
Vertical Gyratory IV, Cincinnati, OH; Two Open Rectangles
Excentric VI Square Section, The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York City; Two Lines Eighteen Feet, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York City
1980
Travels to Berlin, London, Duisburg, Düsseldorf,
Cologne, and Peru
Edie cutting the ribbon at
installation of Two Rectangles
Vertical Gyratory IV, Cincinatti,
OH, 1979. photo: Denny Landwehr
Solo exhibitions: “Pier+Oceon” Hayward Gallery, London;
“George Rickey,” Sig Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA;
“George Rickey,” Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Galerie
Cuenca, Ulm, West Germany
First solo exhibition at Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New
York City (begins lifelong friendship with Maxwell
Davidson); (also 1983, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999,
2001, 2002, 2004)
Establishes the Hand Hollow Foundation
Participates in group shows: “Skulptur im 20.
Jahrhundert,” Wenkenpark, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland;
“Hair” Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City; “Art
Collected from Southwestern Museums,” The Vice
President’s House, Washington, DC
Major installation: Triple L Excentric Gyratory II, National
City Bank, Cleveland, OH
1981
Former President Gerald Ford
and George at dedication of
Two Open Triangles Up Gyratory II
at Ford Library on the North
Campus of ___________, 1982.
photo: The Michigan Daily / UPI Photo
Travels to Berlin, Amsterdam, Glasgow, San Francisco,
and Ireland
Works with Seth Schneidman on documentary George
Rickey—Portrait of an Artist (later edited by Kevin
Macdonald and retited The Moving World of George Rickey)
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey,” Gimpel-Hanover &
Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zürich, Switzerland; “George
Rickey Kinetic Sculpture,” Carl Schlossberg Fine Arts,
Sherman Oaks, CA (also 1987, 1992, 1997); “George Rickey,”
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Attends seminar at Gorey Arts Center, County Wexford,
Ireland
Major installation, Double L Excentric Gyratory 1/3, Central
Park South, New York City
Receives citation from National Association of Schools
of Art
1982
Travels to Berlin, Cologne, and Zürich
Celebrates 75th birthday with family in Scotland
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture on
Clydeside,” Custom House Quay, St. Enoch Exhibition
Centre and Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland (travels to
Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Manor House, Ilkley,
England); “George Rickey Recent Sculpture,” John
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Participates in group exhibitions: “The First International
Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,” University of Hawaii,
Honolulu; “Spielraum Raumspiele,” Der Alten Oper, Stadt
Frankfurt, West Germany; “Artists’ Toys,” Vanderwoude
Tananbaum Gallery, New York City; Galerie Schoeller,
Düsseldorf, West Germany (also 1983, 1984, 1987, 1994);
“Big in Boston,” Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
(also 1983, 1990)
Major installations: Triple L Excentric Gyratory Gyratory—
Köln, Cologne, West Germany; Double L Excentric Gyratory,
private garden (subsequently gift to San Francisco Public
Library, 1997); Open Triangles Up Gyratory II, Gerald Ford
Library, Ann Arbor, MI; L’s One Up One Down Excentric,
National Steel Company, Pittsburgh, PA; Two Lines Oblique
IV, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, West Germany
1983
Travels to Berlin and Munich
Awarded honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Tulane
University, New Orleans, LA
Philip, Stuart, George, Edie and
Lord Provost of Glasgow, Glasgow,
Scotland, June 1982 on occasion
of George’s 75th birthday
George Rickey: Thirty Years of Sculpture exhibition, Maxwell Davidson Gallery,
New York, NY, 1983. photo: Steven Tucker
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Film Maker Seth Schneidman
and George in Achim Pahle
Studio, Berlin, West Germany,
December, 1982 or early 1983
Veksolund exhibition, Denmark, summer 1983
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey und die Tradition des
Konstruktivismus in Berlin,” Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf,
West Germany; “George Rickey, New Orleans Plus 30,”
Art Gallery, Department of Art, Newcomb College, Tulane
University, New Orleans, LA; “George Rickey,” Galerie
Lauter, Mannheim, West Germany
Installation, Goethe University,
Frankfurt, Germany, 1985
Participates in group exhibitions: “International Garden
Exhibition,” Munich, Germany (installs large water sculpture Three Right Angles); “Sculpture Veksølund 1983,”
Veksølund, Veksø, Denmark (also 1984, 1988); “Concepts
in Construction: 1910-1980,” Norton Gallery of Art, West
Palm Beach, FL; “Sculpture—The Tradition in Steel,”
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Major installations: Double L Excentric Gyratory 2/3,
Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Garden, PepsiCo, Inc.,
Purchase, NY; Forty Triangles in Three Movements,
Bayerische Hypotheken- und Vechsel-Bank, Munich,
Germany; Etoile VIII, Standard Oil Company (later
renamed BP America), Cleveland, OH
1984
Nancy Keinholz, artist Ed
Keinholz, George, Inga
Lommatzsch (back row); Philip,
wife Mary, Edie, Veronica
Nester, Cologne, Germany,
1986
1985
Establishes studio and living quarters in Santa Barbara,
CA (1985-2001)
Travels to Honolulu, Venice, Berlin, Edinburgh, and Cologne
Solo exhibition: “George Rickey in South Bend” Art Center
of South Bend, Indiana University of South Bend, St. Mary’s
College, and the Snite Museum of Art, University of
Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Premier of film The Moving World of George Rickey by
Seth Schneidman
Participates in group exhibition, Edith C. Blume Art
Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Major installations: Two Open Triangles Up Gyratory II,
University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA; Double L Excentric
Gyratory—Auckland, City Art Gallery, Auckland, New
Zealand; Four Rectangles Oblique IV, Goethe University,
Frankfurt, Germany
1986
Solo exhibitions: “Kinetische Freiplastiken 1972-1984,”
Bauhaus Archiv, West Berlin, Germany; “George Rickey,”
Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat, Bottrop, West Germany;
“George Rickey Recent Sculptures,” Inkfish Gallery,
Denver, CO (also 1990, 1993, 1996)
Participates in group exhibitions: “Citywide Contemporary
Sculpture Exhibition,” Toledo, OH; “Ordinary and
Extraordinary Uses—Objects by Artists,” Guild Hall, East
Hampton, NY
Major installations: Two Lines Up Excentric VI, Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Two Open
Rectangles Horizontal—Fifteen Feet, Southwestern Bell
Telephone, Dallas, TX; Four Open Squares Horizontal
Tapered, Trinity Hospice, London; Four Lines in a T III,
Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop, West Germany; Double L
Excentric Gyratory—Pond, Harald Quandt Haus, Bad
Homburg, Germany
Receives New York State Governor’s Arts Award, Albany, NY
Receives Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of
Excellence, Atlanta, GA
Solo exhibition, “George Rickey in Bryant Park,” concurrent
exhibitions at Maxwell Davidson Gallery and Zabriskie
Gallery, New York City, sponsored by the Public Art Fund
Participates in group exhibitions: “Elders of the Tribe,”
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York City (circulates 198788);“An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture
Since 1940,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Major installations: Triple L Excentric Gyratory Gyratory II,
2/3, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA (for which Rickey received the
Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence);
Peristyle II, Var. II, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO;
Two Conical Segments Gyratory Gyratory II, The Snite
Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend,
IN; Three Lines Diagonal Jointed—Wall, Krasl Art Center,
St. Joseph, MI; Triple L Excentric Gyratory Gyratory II, 3/3,
Battle Creek, MI
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George with Edie and artist Cleve
Gray (left), 1986
1987
1988
Travels to Scottsdale, Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart,
and Zürich
Travels to California, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Zürich
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey, in Celebration of His
Eightieth Year,” Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks,
CA; “George Rickey zum 80. Geburtstag,” Roswitha
Haftmann Modern Art, Zürich, Switzerland; Galerie Pels
Leusden, West Berlin, Germany; “George Rickey: Projects
for Public Sculpture,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
College, State Universitiy of New York, Purchase, NY
(travels to Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA)
Elected to Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Presents lecture and meets with students, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1989
Celebrates 80th birthday in East Chatham, NY
Travels to Zürich, Berlin, Rotterdam, London, Cologne,
and Stuttgart
Spends Christmas in St. Paul, MN
Invited to China with delegation from the United States;
visits various art schools and gives demonstrations
of his work
George with Willy and Anne
Rotzler, Zurich, Switzerland, 1989
photo: Thomas Cugni
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Major installations: Two Lines Excentric Jointed with Six
Angles, Skulpturenboulevard, Berlin, West Germany
(subsequently installed at Mercedes-Benz headquarters,
Berlin, 1989); Four Trapezoids as Two Rectangles IV—Köln,
An Farina, Cologne, Germany; Space Churn with Spheres III,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Four Trapezoids
as Two Rectangles V, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon,
GA; Two Open Rectangles Excentric VII—Triangular Section,
Golden Gate North, San Francisco, CA; Column V Bronze,
Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI; Four Open Squares Horizontal II, Bank of America, San Francisco, CA (for which he
received the City of Concord Design Award, Excellence in
Integration of Sculpture & Landscape, in 1989)
Solo exhibitions: “In Celebration of Three Breaking
Columns,” Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands; “George Rickey Two Exhibitions,”
indoors at John Berggruen Gallery, outdoors at Esprit
Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA; “George Rickey
Important Sculpture,” Marianne Friedland Gallery,
Toronto, Canada (also 1990); “George Rickey,” Gallery
Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
Participates in group exhibition, “Balancing Act,” Art
Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Major installations: Four Trapezoids as Two Rectangles,
Union Bank, Zürich, Switzerland (moved to Wolfsberg in
1996); Three Breaking Columns, Rotterdamse Schouwburg,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Three Squares Vertical
Diagonal, Benesse Island, Japan; Two Lines Down, Eighteen
Feet, Nuages II, The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles
Galery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan, 1989
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Participates in group exhibitions: “Movement & Modern
Art,” Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; “Sculpture:
Looking in Three Dimensions,” Anchorage Museum of
History and Art, Anchorage, AK
Major installations: Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory Up V,
Koll Company, Pleasanton, CA; One Up One Down
Excentric—Thirty-Two Feet, Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Düsseldorf, West Germany; Four Lines in a T—Fifteen Feet,
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Four Lines Oblique
Gyratory—Rhombus III, Justizzentrum, Cologne, West
Germany; Two Lines Variable—Thirty Feet, Morris
Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Participates in group exhibitions: “Kunst im Öffentlichen
Raum,” Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, under the auspices
of the Minister of Cultural Affairs on the occasion of the
750th anniversary of Berlin, Skulpturenboulevard, Berlin,
West Germany; “Sculpture: Looking into Three Dimensions”
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
George, China, 1987
Solo exhibitions: “3 Skulpturen von George Rickey in
Köln,” Moderne Stadt, Cologne, West Germany; “George
Rickey Indoor/Outdoor Sculptures,” Veranneman
Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
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Pays visit to artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Hope, ID
Experiences the Berlin Wall coming down
Works with Jörn Merkert on development of permanent
“Rickey room” at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1990
Artist Max Bill and George during
installation of Two Rectangles
Vertical Gyratory Up III, Zurich,
Zwitzerland, 1990
photo: Wydler & Maeder
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey,” Ausbildungszentrum
Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland; “George Rickey
Sculptures 1955-1990” Artcurial, Paris; “George Rickey
Kinetic Sculptures,” Galerie Utermann, Dortmund, Germany
Awarded honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Serves as panelist at conference “Pricing and Negotiating
Your Sculpture,” International Sculpture Center,
Washington, DC
Participates in group exhibitions: “A Family Affair—The
Rickeys (George, Phil, Mary),” Arpel Gallery, Santa Barbara,
CA; “Downtown Kinetic,” USX Tower, Pittsburgh, PA
Edie with artist Richard Pettibone,
at the exhibition: George and Edith
Rickey Collection of Constructivist
Art and Richard Pettibone
Miniataures, Neuberger Museum
of Art, Purchase, NY, 1993
Major installations: Column of Four Squares Excentric
Gyratory III and Three Rectangles Horizontal Jointed
Gyratory III, Tokyo City Hall, Japan; Four Lines Oblique
Gyratory II, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum,
Benesse Island, Japan; Four Planes Hanging, Fukutaki
Publishing, Okayama, Japan; Two Rectangles Vertical
Gyratory Up III, Zürich, Switzerland
1991
Solo exhibition: “George Rickey Art of Movement,”
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Participates in group exhibitions: “Abstract Sculpture in
America: 1930-1970” traveled nationally by American
Federation of Arts; “Schwerelos,” Schloss Charlottesburg,
Grosse Orangerie, Berlin, Germany
Major installations: Two Conical Segments Gyratory Gyratory
IV—Homage to W.A.M., Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg,
Germany; Conversation, Musée de Grenoble, France
Visit from Carter Brown of the National Gallery of Art in
East Chatham, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, acquires Cluster
of Four Cubes (installed 1992)
Engineer Rolund Hummel with
George, Berlin, Germany, 1993
photo: Stuart Rickey
Participates in group exhibitions: “L’art en Mouvement,”
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France;
“Environmental Sculpture,” Kouros Sculpture Center,
Ridgefield, CT
Minneapolis Institute of Art acquires Sedge II
Travels to Grenoble, Berlin, and Glasgow
George with artist Kenneth
Snelson, East Chatham, NY, 1993
George with Two Rectangles Vertical Gryatory Up III,
Zurich, Zwitzerland, 1990 photo: Wydler & Maeder
1992
Travels to Guadalajara, Mexico, Berlin, London, Nice and
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Celebrates 85th birthday at the Berlinische Galerie,
Berlin, Germany
Solo exhibition: “George Rickey in Berlin 1967-1992,”
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (permanent installation); “George Rickey in Köln,” Cologne, Germany; “George
Rickey Sculptures,” Tony Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Storm King Art Center acquires Five Open Squares
Gyratory Gyratory
1993
Travels to St. Paul, St. Lucia, Denver, Berlin, Dortmund,
and Nürnberg
Awarded Verdienstkreuz, 1 klasse (Order of Merit, 1st
Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany
Solo exhibitions: “A Dialogue in Steel and Air—George
Rickey” Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL;
“George Rickey in Santa Barbara,” University Art Museum,
Santa Barbara, CA; “George Rickey at Muhlenberg,”
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; George Rickey,”
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
Participates in group exhibitions: “In the Sculptor’s
Landscape,” Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden,
University of California, Los Angeles; “Akademie 1993,”
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Major installations: Breaking Column II, City Park,
Dortmund, Germany; Faceted Column, Trigon Building,
Berlin, Germany; Four Lines Oblique Gyratory—Rhombus,
Smith College, Northampton, MA; Triple L Excentric
Gyratory Gyratory IV, Osaka University, Japan; Six Random
Lines Excentric, Richard Wagner Platz, Nürnberg, Germany
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1994
1997
Establishes George Rickey Foundation
Travels to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and South Bend
Solo exhibitions: “A Selection of Drawings and Sculpture
by George Rickey,” The Century Association, New York
City; “Rickey—Sieben Kinetische Skulpturen,” Galerie
Utermann, Dortmund, Germany; “George Rickey:
Horizontal Column/Testwall,” TZ’Art & Co., New York City
Celebrates 90th birthday with a number of special exhibitions: “Important Early Sculptures 1951-65,” Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, New York City; “George Rickey: Master
of Kinetic Sculpture—In Recognition of His 90th Year,”
Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA; “George Rickey:
Kinetic Sculpture,” Snite Museum, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN; “Zum 90. Geburtstag—Kinetische
Skulpturen,” Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz,
Germany
Participates in group exhibitions: “Sculpture at
Naumkeag,” Naumkeag, Stockbridge, MA (also 1997); “The
Constructive Vocabulary, An American Vision,” Galerie
Dr. Estvan Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland
Major installations: Two Lines Up Excentric—Twelve Feet,
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Two
Lines—Eighteen Feet, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
City; Four Open Rectangles Diagonal Jointed II Gyratory,
Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995
George with artist Benigna Chilla,
American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York, NY, November
1995. photo: Dorothy Alexander
Edith Rickey dies June 24; memorial held August 7 in
East Chatham, NY
Receives Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy
of Arts and Letters
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
Featured artist in “Exhibition Work by Newly Elected
Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,”
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
John Johanson with George,
American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York, NY, November
1995
Participates in group exhibitions: “Twentieth-Century
American Sculpture at the White House,” Sculpture
Garden, The White House, Washington, DC; “Kinetische
Metallobjekte, Balance und Bewegung,” Städtischen
Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; “Light Interpretations:
A Hanukah Menorah Invitational,” The Jewish Museum,
San Francisco, CA
Major installations: Peristyle V, Benesse Island, Japan;
Column of Four Squares Excentric Gyratory III, Gibbs
Sculpture Collection (Keystone Trust), Auckland, New
Zealand; Two Lines Horizontal Gyratory, Staatliche Museum,
Schwerin, Germany; Four Lines Oblique Gyratory—Square,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
1996
Travels to Glasgow, Denver, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Paris
Receives the 1996 Lord Provost’s Award, in Recognition
of Service to the Visual Arts, presented by City of
Glasgow, Scotland
Participates in group exhibitions: “Lumiere et Mouement,”
Galerie Denise René,Paris; “Cinquante ans d’art construit,
hommage à Denise René,” l’Hôtel du Départment,
Strasbourg, France; “Outdoor Sculpture,” Elena Zang
Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Makes gift of sculpture, Dialogue, to South Bend Regional
Museum, Indiana (installed 1998)
Spends Thanksgiving in St. Paul, MN, with Philip
and family
Attends unveiling of Etoile Variation V, at Albany Institute
of History and Art, Albany, NY
Participates in group exhibitions: “1997 Biennial Exhibition
of Public Art,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY;
“George Rickey, Motion and Silence,” Galerie Dr. István
Schlégel, Zürich, Switzerland
Major installations: Cluster of Four Cubes, St. Lawrence
University, Canton, NY; One Line Horizontal Floating—
Twenty Feet, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum
of Art, Nashville, TN; Two Planes Vertical Horizontal II,
Veksølund, Denmark
1998
Travels with son Philip to Scotland; sails on the Clyde,
visits childhood home in Helensburgh and Glenalmond,
Scotland
Donates Triple L Excentric to Maggie’s Centre, in memory
of Maggie Keswick, Glenalmond, Scotland
Visits Balliol College, Oxford, England; donates Two
Planes Veritical Horizontal II to College (installed 1999)
Travels to St. Paul, MN, for Christmas and on to San
Francisco, CA
Solo exhibition, “George Rickey,” Veranneman Foundation,
Kruishoutem, Belgium
Major installations: Horizontal Column of Five Squares
Excentric II, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
San Antonio, TX; Space Churn—Red, Stanford University,
California, on long-term loan (gifted in 1998); Two
Rectangles Vertical Gyratory Up V, Gibbs Sculpture
Collection (Keyston Trust), Auckland, New Zealand, Four
Triangles Hanging (long-term loan), Albany International
Airport, Albany, NY
Spends Thanksgiving in St. Paul, MN
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Spends time in Santa Barbara; sets up studio at the
Dole house
Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary
Sculpture, with Kenneth Snelson, at the Century Club,
New York City
Philip, George and artist Kenneth
Snelson, on occasion of Rickey and
Snelson receiving the Lifetime
Achievement Award at the Century
Club, 1999
Solo exhibition: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama;
premier of edited version of film The Moving World of
George Rickey, by Seth Scheidmen and Kevin Macdonald
Spends Thanksgiving with Laura Verplank and family in
Sewickley, PA, and Christmas with son Stuart in San
Francisco, CA
Participates in group exhibitions: “World Artists at the
Millennium,” The United Nations Visitors Lobby, New York
City; “Twentieth-Century American Sculpture at the White
House,” The White House, Washington, DC; “Celebrating
Sculpture—Personal Visions and Universal Themes:
Aspects of American Sculpture Since 1945,” The Marion
Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Dorothy Globus, Fashion Institute
of Technology, Murray Grigor,
formerly Scottish Sculpture
Trust, Glasgow, Philip, at George’s
memorial at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, 2002.
photo: Carl L. Howard
Major installations: Five Lines in Parallel Plane, University
of Cincinnati, Ohio; Two Lines Up Oblique, Greenwich
Library, Greenwich, CT; Six Random Lines Excentric III, Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; One Line
Horizontal Floating—Thirty Feet, Schweisfurth-Foundation,
Glonn, Germany; Conversation, Wilhelm-Hack Museum,
Ludwigshaven, Germany
2000
Travels to Santa Barbara, St. Paul, and South Bend
Installs Annular Eclipse on Park Avenue, New York City
(filmed by Kevin Macdonald)
Major installations: Two Lines Oblique, The Snite Museum
of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; Four
Open Squares Horizontal Tapered, Frederic Meijer Sculpture
Park, Grand Rapids, MI; Triple N III Gyratory, The Toledo
Museum, Toledo, OH; Six Random Lines Excentric,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2001
Travels to Santa Barbara
Health failing, moves to St. Paul,MN;establishes small studio
Participates in group exhibitions: “Hand Hollow Fellows,”
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; “Modern
Sculptures,” Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan
Major installations: Horizontal Column of Five Squares,
Excentric II, City of Schiedam, Beatrix Park, Holland
(formerly at Julianapark); Annular Eclipse IV, Louisiana
Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
2002
Dies July 17 at age 95 in St. Paul, MN
Memorials at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York City, October 24, and in East Chatham, NY, October 26
Son Philip receives Finkenwerder Award in his father
name, Hamburg, Germany
Major installations: Annular Eclipse Sixteen Feet Variation II,
Hines Corporation, San Francisco, CA; Two Open Rectangles
Diagonal Jointed III—Wall, Olivet College, Olivet, MI; Two
Lines Up—Thirty Feet, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Kobe,
Japan; Four Trapezoids as Two Rectangles III (on extended
loan), Airbus, Hamburg, Germany
Awarded honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of
Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Spends Thanksgiving in St. Paul, MN
Solo exhibitions: Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan; “George
Rickey—A Retrospective, 1958-2000,” Soma Gallery,
La Jolla, CA
Annular Eclipse Sixteen feet II,
1999-2000, Hines Corporation,
San Franciso, CA, installed 2002
Participates in group exhibitions: “Welded Sculpture of
the 20th Century,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY;
“International Sculpture Festival: Contemporary American
Sculpture,” Monte Carlo, Monaco; “Crossroads of American
Sculpture,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN,
and New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA;
“Form and Movement in the 20th Century—Homage to
Denise René,” Tsukuba Museum of Art, Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Urawa
Art Museum, Himeji City Museum of Art, Japan; “Art &
Mathematics 2000,” The Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery
and Brooks Design Center, New York City, also Berkshire
Community College, Koussevitzky Art Center, Pittsfield, MA
Two Lines Up-Thirty Feet, 1988-2001, Hyogo
Museum, Japan, installed 2002
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2006
Solo exhibitions: “George Rickey—Kinetische Skulpturen,”
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany,
with Berlinsche Galerie, Berlin; “Kinetische Skulpturen
1956-2000,” Verlag der Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
Germany, with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York City;
“George Rickey: A Tribute,” University Art Museum, Santa
Barbara, CA
Solo exhibition: “George Rickey,” in conjunction with group
exhibition “Momentum: Selections from the Kinetic Art
Organization,” Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Group exhibitions: “Around the World in Forty Years,”
Art in Embassies Program’s 40th Anniversary, US State
Department, Washington, DC, “Ein Rückblick als Stiftung,”
Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany, also at LeopoldHoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
Two-person exhibition: “Two Americans in Paris: George
Rickey and Kenneth Snelson dans le jardin du Palais
Royal, Paris, France
Major installations: Two Lines Oblique, Frist Center for
the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (long-term loan); Two Lines
Oblique Down III, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI;
Faceted Column, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, MN (long-term loan)
2007
2004
Solo exhibition: “George Rickey—Retrospective,” Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, New York City
Group exhibitions: “Works and Days,” Louisiana Museum,
Humlebæk, Denmark; “Sculptors Guild on the White
Plains Library Plaza,” White Plains, NY
Solo exhibition: “George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture: A
Retrospective,” Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
(travels to Frederic Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park,
Grand Rapids, MI; Marion Koogler McNay Museum,
San Antonio, TX)
Major installation: Four Lines Oblique, Albertina Museum,
Vienna, Austria
2005
Major installations: Three Rectangles Horizontal Jointed
Gyratory II, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington (long-term
loan); Three Squares Gyratory I, The Paul J. Getty Museum,
Los Angeles, CA
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Please note that books, monographs and articles are
organized by author; exhibition catalogues, writings by the
artist and films are listed chronologically.
Day, Holliday T., with contributions by Dore Ashton and
Lena Vigna. Crossroads of American Sculpture. Indianapolis:
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2000.
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS
Friebe, Ingeborg. Begegnungen, Kunst im Landtag
Nordrhein-Westfalen. Cologne, Germany: Dumont
Buchverlag, 1994.
Davidson, Maxwell. George Rickey: The Early Works. Atglen,
PA: Schiffer Books, Inc., 2004.
Merkertk, Jorn, and Ursula Prinz, eds. George Rickey in
Berlin, 1967-1992. Berlin: Ars Nicolai GmbH, 1992.
Reiko, Tomii. “Between Two Continents: George Rickey,
Kinetic Art and Constructivism, 1949-1968.” Ph.D. diss.,
University of Texas at Austin, 1988.
Rosenthal, Nan. George Rickey. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1977.
INCLUDED IN BOOKS
Goldwater, Robert. What Is Modern Sculpture? New York:
The Museum of Modern Art, 1969 (distributed by New
York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT).
Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art:
Painting, Sculpture Architecture. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1959.
Hobbs, Robert. 101 Masterworks. Iowa City: The University
of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986.
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Selected Works from
the Collection of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Hyogo,
Japan: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 2002.
Armstrong, Thomas. 200 Years of American Sculpture.
New York: David R. Godine, 1976.
Kultermann, Udo. The Sculpture. New York: Frederick A.
Praeger, 1968.
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art. Rev. ed. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1976.
Lipman, Jean, and Franc Helen M., eds. Bright Stars:
American Painting and Sculpture Since 1776. Intro. by John
I. H. Baur. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.
Burnham, Jack. Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of
Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century.
New York: George Braziller, 1968.
Clérin, Philippe. La Sculpture en Acier. Paris: Dessain &
Tolra, 1993.
Collischan, Judy. Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth
Century. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with
the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State
University of New York, 2000.
Crane, Aimee, ed. “Art in the Armed Forces.” Pictured by
Men in Action. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1944
(distributed by Charles Scribner’s Sons).
Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future. New York: Frederick A.
Praeger, 1973.
Lowry, Glen, and Dennis Anderson. The Governor Nelson
A. Rockefeller Empire State Place Art Collection and Plaza
Memorials. Albany: New York State Office of General
Services in association with Rizzoli International
Publications, Inc., 2002
Lynch, John. Mobile Design. New York: The Studio
Publications, Inc., 1955.
Mahlow, Dietrich. 100 Jahre Metalplastik: 100 Years of
Metal Sculpture. Frankfurt am Main: Metall Gesellschaft
A.G., 1981.
Meijer, Frederik. Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the
Frederick Meijer Gardens. Grand Rapids, MI: Frederik Meijer
Gardens and Sculpture Park, 2002.
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Nestler, Peter, et al. George Rickey in Köln, Cologne,
Germany: Moderne Stadt, Gesellschaft zur Förderung des
Städtebaues und der Gemeindeentwicklung, 1992.
Ocvirk, Stinson, and Cayton Wigg Bone. Art Fundamentals,
Theory and Practice. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.
Popper, Frank. Origins and Development of Kinetic Art.
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968.
Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Sculpture. New
York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964.
Roberts, Norma, ed. The American Collections. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, in conjunction with the Columbus
Museum of Art, 1989.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
George Rickey—Machines, Kinetic Sculptures, Mobiles. New
York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1955.
George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture and Machines New
Orleans: Delgado Museum, 1956.
George Rickey: Kinetic Sculptures. New York: Kraushaar
Galleries, 1959.
George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture. New York: Kraushaar
Gallery, 1961.
George Rickey. Düsseldorf: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande
und Westfalen, 1962.
Rodman, Selden. Conversations with Artists. New York: The
Devin-Adair Co., 1957.
George Rickey: Kinetic Sculptures. Boston: Institute of
Contemporary Art, 1964.
Senie, Harriet F. Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition,
Transformation, and Controversy. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 1992.
George Rickey. New York: Staempfli Gallery, 1967.
Siegel, Jeanne. Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70s.
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1985.
Story, Ala. Constructivist Tendencies: From the Collection of
Mr. and Mrs. George Rickey. Santa Barbara: University of
California at Santa Barbara, 1970.
George Rickey. New York: Staempfli Gallery, 1971.
ARTICLES
Schmied, Wieland. George Rickey. Hannover: Kestner
Gesellschaft, 1973.
Goodman, Jonathan. “The Public Art of George Rickey.”
Arts Magazine 62, no. 9 (May 1988).
George Rickey. Zürich: Gimpel & Hanover Galerie; London:
Gimpel Fils Gallery, 1975.
Gruen, John. “The Sculpture of George Rickey: Silent
Movement, Performing in a World of Its Own.” Art News
79, no. 4 (April 1980).
George Rickey. New York: Staempfli Gallery and Fordham
University Plaza, 1975.
———. “Artist’s Dialogue: George Rickey, Choreography
of Steel,” Architectural Digest (June 1988).
Hanzal, Carla. “Within the Poetry of Motion: George
Rickey.” Sculpture 18, no. 8 (1999).
Marter, Joan. “The Legacy of Alexander Calder.” Sculpture
17, no. 6 (July-August 1998).
Neumeyer, Alfred. “The Language of Kinetic Sculpture.”
Studio International 172, no. 879 (July 1966).
Schmied, Wieland. “Eine Harmonie: Parallel den Prozessen
der Natur,” Kunst 17, no. 1 (1977).
Secunda, Arthur. “Two Motion Sculptors: Tinguely and
Rickey.” Artforum 1, no. 1 (June 1962).
Metcalf, Katherine. “Kinetic Sculpture.” Arts and
Architecture (June 1966).
Schmied, Wieland. George Rickey. St. Gallen, Switzerland:
Erker Verlag, 1976.
Weisner, Ulrich. George Rickey: Kinetische Objekte, Material
und Technik. Bielefeld, Germany: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1976.
Barnes, Lucinda. George Rickey: Drawings for Sculpture.
Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1977.
George Rickey, Skupturen, Material, Technik. Berlin: Amerika
Haus, 1979.
George Rickey. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, 1979.
George Rickey. New York: Maxwell Davidson Gallery, 1980.
George Rickey. Montreal: Musée d’Art Contemporain, 1981.
George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture on Clydeside. Glasgow:
Scottish Arts Council, 1982.
George Rickey in South Bend. South Bend: Indiana
University and the University of Notre Dame, 1985.
George Rickey. New York: Maxwell Davidson Gallery and
Zabriskie Gallery, 1986.
George Rickey, Berlin: Galerie Pels Leusden, 1987.
Merkert, Jörn. George Rickey Sculptures 1955-1990. Paris:
Artcurial, 1990.
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George Rickey: Kinetische Skulpturen. Dortmund, Germany,
and New York: Galerie Utermann, 1990.
Brown, Gordon. “George Rickey at Staempfli.” Arts
(Summer 1971).
Snyder, Jill, et al. George Rickey: Art of Movement. Katonah,
NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1991.
Kramer, Hilton. “Art: The Mobiles of George Rickey.” The
New York Times (April 26, 1975).
Merkert, Jörn, and Ursula Prinz, eds. George Rickey in
Berlin, 1967-1992: die Sammlung der Berlinischen Galerie.
Berlin: Berlinische Galerie and Ars Nicolai, 1992.
George Rickey. Osaka, Japan: Gallery Kasahara, 1993.
George Rickey: Recent Sculpture. New York: Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, 1993.
George Rickey: Sieben Kinetische Skulpturen. Dortmund,
Germany: Galerie Utermann and Skulpturenpark
Harenberg, 1994.
George Rickey, Recent Sculptures. New York: Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, 1995.
George Rickey, Recent Sculptures. New York: Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, 1997.
George Rickey: Defining the Fourth Dimension. New York:
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, 2001.
George Rickey: A Retrospective. New York: Maxwell
Davidson Galley, 2004.
ARTICLES / REVIEWS RELATED TO EXHIBITIONS
(chronological)
Munson, Gretchen T. “George Rickey.” Art News 53, no. 10
(February 1955).
George, Laverne. “George Rickey.” Arts Digest 29, no. 8
(January 15, 1955).
Lonngren, Lillian. “George Rickey.” Art News 57, no. 10
(February 1959).
Sawin, Martica. “George Rickey.” Arts 33, no. 5 (February
1959).
Lonngren, Lillian. “George Rickey.” Art News 60, no. 7
(November 1961).
Raynor, Vivien. “New York Exhibitions: In the Galleries—
George Rickey.” Arts 36, no. 2 (November 1961).
Levin, Kim. “George Rickey.” Art News 63, no. 8
(December 1964).
[A.G.] “George Rickey.” Art News 66, no. 5 (September 1967).
George Rickey, Retrospective Exhibition 1951-71. Los
Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries, 1971.
Henry, Gerrit. “George Rickey.” Art News 70, no. 4
(Summer 1971).
Green, Denise. “George Rickey.” Arts 45, no. 8 (Summer
1971).
Rosenthal, Nan. “Going with the Wind: Rickey’s ‘Lines’
and ‘Planes.’” Art in America 63, no. 6 (NovemberDecember 1975).
Winter, Peter. “George Rickey.” Das Kunstwerk (July 1976).
Ohff, Heinz. “George Rickey: AmerikaHaus und Galerie
Folker Skulima, Berlin.” Das Kunstwerk 4, no. 32
(August 1979).
Merkert, Jörn. “The Rigour of Geometry as a Living Form.”
In George Rickey, Osaka, 1989.
ARTIST’S WRITINGS
“Stimulating an Appetite for Art.” Association of American
Colleges Bulletin (November 1937), pp. 334-36.
“Artists in the Community.” Art Education Today (New
York, 1942).
“The Mobility of Americans.” Trans. Catherine LeGuet as
“La Civilisation du Mouvement.” Les Temps Modernes
(August-September 1946).
“Kinetic Sculpture.” In Art and Artist, pp. 149-79. Berkeley,
Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press
and Cambridge University Press, 1956.
“Scratch an Engineer and . . .” Columbia Engineering
Quarterly (October 1957), pp. 17, 21, 31.
“The Kinetic International.” Arts 35, no. 10 (September
1961), pp. 16-21.
“Calder in London.” Arts Magazine (September 1962),
pp. 22-27.
“The Morphology of Movement: A Study of Kinetic Art.”
Art Journal 22, no. 4 (Summer 1963), pp. 220-31. Reprinted
in Kepes, György, ed. The Nature and Art of Motion, pp.
81-115. New York: George Braziller, 1965.
“The Metier.” Contemporary Sculpture, Arts Yearbook 8, ed.
James R. Mellow, pp. 164-66. New York: Arts Digest, 1965.
“Kinesis Continued.” Art in America 3, no. 6 (December
1965-January 1966), pp. 45-55.
Introduction to Peter Selz, Directions in Kinetic Sculpture,
pp. 13-16. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of
California, 1966.
Constructivism: Origins and Evolution. New York: George
Braziller, 1967.
“Origins of Kinetic Art.” Studio International 173, no. 886
(February 1967), pp. 65-69.
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Statements in “The Berkeley Symposium of Kinetic
Sculpture,” ed. Peter Selz, Art and Artists (FebruaryMarch 1967).
“The Muse,” “Scale,” and “Hommage à Albers.” In George
Rickey. New York: Maxwell Davidson Gallery and
Zabriskie Gallery, 1986.
“Observations and Reflections—1964.” In Theories of
Modern Art, ed. Herschel B. Chipp, pp. 578-89. Berkeley:
University of California, Press, 1978.
“In the Fullness of Time.” In George Rickey, pp. 13-14, 16.
Berlin: Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1987.
Introduction. Constructivist Tendencies; From the Collection
of Mr. and Mrs. George Rickey. Santa Barbara: University of
California at Santa Barbara, 1970.
Introduction and text. George Rickey: Kinetische Objekte
und Technik. Bielefeld, Germany: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1976.
“Naum Gabo, 1890-1977.” Artforum (November 1977),
pp. 22-27.
“All Good Art Is Public,” Educational Perspectives 16, no. 3
(October 1977), pp. 10-11.
“Naum Gabo.” Naum Gabo: Ein Russischer Konsstruktivist
in Berlin, pp. 42-58. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 1989.
“Reflections While Building a Sculpture for Berlin.”
In George Rickey in Berlin, 1967-1992. Berlin: Berlinische
Galerie, 1992.
“A Technology of Kinetic Art.” Scientific American
(February 1993), pp. 74-79.
FILMS
“I Remember—or Do I?” In George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture
on Clydeside. Glasgow: Scottish Arts Council, 1982.
The Moving World of George Rickey. Photography by
Richard Dallett and Oliver Cheeseman, incorporating
material shot and directed by Seth Schneidman. Figment
Films, London, in association with BBC Scotland, 1998.
“George Rickey on His Recent Work.” Art Monthly 69
(September 1983), pp. 4-6.
George Rickey Works. Produced and directed by Paul M.
Kreft. All the Right Angles Inc., 2006.
“Less Is Less.” Art Journal 41, no. 3 (Fall 1981), pp. 248-49.
“Nulla Dies Sine Linea.” In The Maximal Implications of the
Minimal Line. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Edith C. Blum
Art Institute, Bard College,1985.
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WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
NORTH AMERICA
Canada
Toronto, Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1965
York University, 1971
Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo Arts Library, 1965
Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico D.F.: Televisa, S.A., 1979
United States
Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1997,
acquired 2003
Empire State Plaza, 1974
State Employment Building, 1967
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1974
Allendale, MI: Grand Valley State College, 1971
Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1974
Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, 1963, 1997 acquired in 2003
Phillips Academy, 1994
Ann Arbor, MI: Gerald Ford Library, 1982
Atlanta, GA: The High Museum of Art, 1969 and 1973
The Coca-Cola Company, 1986
Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1956, 1975, 1987
Battle Creek, MI: Kellogg Company, 1986
Bellingham, WA: The Whatcom Museum of History and
Art, 1971, 1974 extended loan, acquired 2002
Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art 1998
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1963,
1966, 1990, 2000 (3)
Boca Raton, FL: Lynn University, 2000
Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1966
Boston Athenaeum Library, 1977
Buffalo, NY: AlbrightKnox Art Gallery, 1965
Cambridge, MA: Park School, 1971
Canton, NY: St. Lawrence University, 1997
Chalk Hill, PA: Frank Lloyd Wright House, “Kentuck Knob”,
2001 (2), 2003
Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1981, 1997 (2)
Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1970
Central Trust Co., 1979, currently PNC Bank Corp.
University of Cincinnati, 1999
Cleveland, OH: The Standard Oil Company, 1985, currently
Harbor Group International
Cleveland, OH: National City Corporation, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 1991
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Columbus, OH: The Columbus Museum of Art, 1978
Costa Mesa, CA: Center Tower Associates, 1985
Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1963
Southwestern Bell Telephone, 1984, currently AT&T
Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1987
Deerfield, MA: Eaglebrook School, 1969
Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 1972, 1999
Detroit, MI: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967, 1988
(extended loan), 2006
East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State
University, 1976
Englewood, CO: The Museum of Outdoor Arts, 1988
Fairfax, VA: Mobil Corporation, 1982
Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Arts, 1969, 1972
Fort Wayne, IN: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1986, 1997
Fort Worth, TX: City Hall, 1974
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 1975, 1991
Grand Rapids, MI: Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture
Park, 2000
Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University
of North Carolina, 1976
Greenwich, CT: Greenwich Library, 1998
Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
1966, 1977
Honolulu, HI: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1971
Federal Court House, 1976
The Contemporary Museum, 1988 1991
Huntington, WV: Huntington Museum of Art, Inc., 1977
Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1975,
1977, 2000
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1969, 1978
Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 1973, 1985
Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
1967, 2002
Keene, NH: Keene State College, 1965
Lake Forest, IL: Lake Forest College, 1988
Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Art Museum,1992 (3)
Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
1966, 2003
Lincoln, NE: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture
Garden/University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 199l
Long Beach, CA: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1971
Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994
UCLA Art Council, 1972, currently Franklin D. Murphy
Sculpture Garden
The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1989 (2)
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005
University of Judaism, 1985, 1995 extended loan
Macon, GA: Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1987
Manchester, CT: Manchester Community College, 1984
Memphis, TN: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1973
Miami, FL: Miami Art Museum, Miami Florida 1996
Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College, 1977
Minneapolis, MN: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, 2003
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1966, 1992, 2006 (longterm loan)
Walker Art Center, 1967
Montclair, NJ: The Montclair Art Museum, 1961
Mountainville, NY: Storm King Art Center, 1967, 1971, 1992
Naples, FL: Naples Museum of Art, 1993, 2005
Nashville, TN: Cheekwood-Tennessee Botanical Garden
and Museum of Art, 1997, 1998
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970, 1995
New London, CT: Connecticut College, 1969
New Orleans, LA: Katz & Besthoff Foundation, 1978 currently Sidney & Walda Besthoff Foundation collection
Sidney Besthoff, 1978, currently New Orleans Museum
of Art, Sidney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University, 1983
New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964, 1979, 1994
Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1967
Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1978,
1987, 1998
Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge,
1968
Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum of California, 1967
Olivet, MI: Olivet College, 2002 acquired 2003
Omaha, NE: National Bank, 1970, currently U.S. Bank
National Association
Pasadena, CA: Art Center College of Design, 1978
Ralph M. Parsons Company, 1978
Peoria, IL: Peoria Airport, 1978
Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, 1984
Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, 1986
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1981
National Steel Company, 1982, currently National City
Center L.P.
Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Museum, 1988 (2)
Pleasanton, CA: Koll Company, 1987, currently Bernal
Corporate Park Owner’s Association
Poughkeepsie, NY: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,
Vassar College, 1987, 1997
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1972
Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College,
State University of New York, 1974, 1983, 1993
The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at
PepsiCo, 1983
Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1962
Reading, PA: Freedman Gallery - Albright College, 1995
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of
Rochester, 1994, 1999
Sacramento, CA: Lee Sammis Company Corporate Centre,
1983, currently Triple Net Properties
San Antonio, TX: The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
1998
San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Art, 1972
San Francisco, CA: Bank of America, 1987
City of San Francisco, Main Library, 1997
Golden Gate North, 1987, currently Golden Gateway
Center
Hines, 560 Mission, 2002
Santa Barbara, CA: Museum of Art, 1966 1972, 2000
acquired 2003
University Art Museum, 1967, 2000 acquired 2003
Schenectady, NY: General Electric, Research and
Development Center, 1983
Schenectady Museum, 1972
South Bend, IN: Beth-El Synagogue, 1999
Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, 1986, 1991,
2000 acquired in 2003, 2001 (2) acquired 2003
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, 1998, 1996
St. Joseph, MI: Krasl Art Center, 1986
St. Louis, MO: Laumeier Sculpture Park, 1986, 1988
Mary Institute, 1969
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Museum of American Art,
1968, 1967
Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual
Arts, 1978
Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson
Fine Arts Center, 1995
Toledo, OH: The Toledo Museum of Art, 2000
Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1970
Troy, NY: Emma Willard School, 1967
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1984, 2000
Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966
National Gallery of Art, 1991, 1992
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, 1966 (6), 1972 (1), 1986 (3)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1969, 1979, 2005
Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, 1973
Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum,1977 (2),1987
Woodside, CA: Runnymede Sculpture Farm, 1990
EUROPE, ASIA, AND THE ANTIPODIES
Austria
Vienna: Albertina Museum, 2004
Belgium
Kruishoutem: (nr.Antwerp); Foundation Veranneman,
1974, 1988
Denmark
Copenhagen: Bispebjerg Hospital, 1994, acquired 2003
Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum, 1976, 2001 acquired 2003
Veksø: Veksølund, 1997 acquired 2003
England
London: Tate Gallery, 1969, 1976
Trinity Hospice, 1984
Oxford: Balliol College, 1999
France
Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, 1991
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Germany
Bad Godesberg: Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst, 1969
Bad Homburg: Harald Quandt Haus, 1984
Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 1988, 1992 various sculptures
Bochum: RuhrUniversität, 1978
Intertec: “Trigon Building”, 1993
Klinikum Freie Universität, 1970
Kulturstiftung Hartwig Piepenbrock, Villa Lemm, 1991
Neue Nationalgalerie, 1969, 1975
Bielefeld: Kunsthalle der Stadt, 1976
Bonn: DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst),
1970
Bottrop: “Quadrat Bottrop”, Moderne Galerie (Joseph
Albers Museum), 1984
Cologne: Am Justizzentrum, 1988
An Farina, 1988
Goethe University, 1985
ColognePorz: City, 1982
Cuxhaven: “Konkreter Kunst”, Museum Moderner Kunst,
1994
Dortmund: Ministry of Labor, 1993, 1995
Duisburg: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 1991
Düren: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, 2004
Düsseldorf: City, Nordpark, 1965
Henkel GmbH, 1968
Landtag NordrheinWestfalen, 1988
Emden: Kunsthalle, 1991
Eningen: Wandel & Goltermann, currently JDSU
Deutschland, 1989
Frankfurt: Hessischer Rundfunk, 1988
Freiburg: Max Planck Institut, 1979
Fulda: Fachhochschule, 1982
Gelsenkirchen: City, 1970
GiessenFriedberg: Fachhochschule, 1979
Glonn: Hermannsdorfer Landwerkstat, SchweisfurthFoundation, 1999
Greven: Fiege Systemzentrale Besitzgesellschaft, 1999
Halle: Staatliche Galerie, Moritzburg Halle, (Saale), 1995
Hamburg: Kunsthalle, 1963
Hannover: City, 1971
Heidelberg: Neues Medizinsches Institut, 1973
Kiel: Neubau des Physikzentrums, 1977
Lauf: School for Ministry of Labor, 1993
Mannheim: Kunsthalle, 1983
Munich: Bayerische Hypothekenund Vereinsbank, AG, 1983
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 1979
Neue Heimat Bayern, Munich Neu Perlach, 1970,
currently City of Munich
RückversicherungsGesellschaft, 1974
Münster: City of, 1974
Nürnberg: RichardWagnerPlatz, Ministry of Labor, 1993
Schwerin: Staatliche Museum, 1995
Stadt Ludwigshaven am Rhein: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum,
1999
Stuttgart: MercedesBenz, 1989
Thieme Verlag, 1982
Ulm: Technische Universität, 1977
Israel
Jerusalem: City of, 1971
Tel Aviv: Museum of Art, 1997
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Japan
Benesse Island, Fukutaki Museum, Naoshima Cultural
Village, 1989, 1990, 1995
Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, 2002
Kyoto: Fujimoto, Shiga Prefecture, 1990
Okayama: Fukutaki Publishing, 1990
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Art, 1993
Osaka: Kansai University, 1993
National Museum of Art (formerly the National
Memorial Museum of Expo ’70), 1969, 1993, 2002
Shizuoka: Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1985
Tokyo: Hakone OpenAir Museum, 1976
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980
Tokyo City Hall, 1991 (2)
Wakyama: Wakyama Prefectural Museum of Modern
Art, 1990
Korea
Seoul, Olympiad of Art, Olympic Park, 1988
The Netherlands
Amsterdam: Schipol Airport, 1974
Otterlo: Rijksmuseum KröllerMüller, 1966, 1969
Rotterdam: City of Rotterdan: installed 1971
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 1971
Schouwburg, (New Theatre), 1989
Schiedam, City, Beatrix Park, 2001 (formerly at Julianapark)
New Zealand
Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1985
Gibbs Sculpture Collection (Keystone Trust), 1995, 1998
Scotland
Edinburgh: Maggie’s Centre, Cancer Caring Centre,
2001acquired 2003
National Gallery of Scotland, Gallery of Modern Art,
1984
Glasgow: Sterling: The University of Sterling, 1999
The National Trust for Scotland, “Hill House” (designed
by Mackintosh), 1997
University of Glasgow, 1971
Switzerland
Bern: Kunstmuseum, 1983
Ermatingen (near Zürich): Wolfberg, 1996 (formerly at Zug)
Zurich: Union Bank of Switzerland, 1989
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