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George Warren Rickey

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George Warren Rickey (1907 - 2002) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana.  George Rickey is known for Stainless steel kinetic sculpture, some drawing.

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 George Rickey was a creator of precisely engineered kinetic sculpture. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and when age six, was taken to Scotland in 1913. He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, in 1928-29, earning a B.A.. in art history and in 1941, an M.A. from that school. He also studied with Andre Lhote in Paris in 1929. He returned to America in 1930 but continued to travel abroad.

Rickey took up sculpture later in his career. From 1930 until the late 40s, he was a fresco and mural painter, and also a teacher with positions at The Groton School in Massachusetts in the 1930s, and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he chaired the art department from 1941 to 1948. In 1945, he completed his first mobile when he was serving in the Air Force, and in 1949, he began glass kinetic works, after which he experimented with a variety of materials. Stainless steel became his preferred medium.

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   Publications  Book References:  70
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for George Warren Rickey
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculptu April 2004 Becherer, Joseph Antenucci Yes
Art & Auction at the fair January 2004 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Art-Talk "Moving Sculpture" artist Rickey October 2002 Editors, Art-Talk No
Art in America Artworld September 2002 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews News Briefs September 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions April 2000 Editors, Art in America Yes
70 Book References for George Warren Rickey
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1994 National Gallery of Art Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 283 No
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989)
(Exhibition catalog)		 468 No
1991 Gruen, John The Artist Observed 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists 324 No
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Greenwood, Dougles McCreary Art in Embasies Twenty-Five Years at the State Department 63 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Rotzler, Willy Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present 332 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Aharonian, Coriun et al A Salute to Helga Retzer
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Selz, Peter Art In A Turbulent Era 390 No
1985 Siegel, Jeanne Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s 235 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Ritchie, Margaret Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection 304 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Rosenthal, Nan George Rickey 220 Yes
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 Yes
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 310 Yes
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development 96 Yes
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Neilson, Katharine B Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery 343 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1971 Wight, Frederick George Rickey Retrospective Exhibition 1951-1971
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1968 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned)
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 No
1961 Rodman, Selden Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects 234 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the Frederik Meijer Gardens 120 Yes
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