George Rickey was a creator of precisely engineeered 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 fr (showing 500 of 1688 characters). |
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