George Rickey
Daimler Art Collection: Interview with Renate Wiehager (2009)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Jun 09
...George Rickey. Additional large-scale works by Tony Cragg and Bernhard Heiliger were acquired for the Mercedes-Benz plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim. From 1996 to 2001, the Daimler Art Collection was in charge of locating and commissioning eight sculptural works for Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz,...
Sydney Besthoff: Collecting New Orleans-style (2004)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Oct 04
...George Rickey, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, and Ossip Zadkine. (The remaining nine were museum purchases or gifts from other donors.) Previously, most of the Besthoffs’ sculpture collection was on view at K&B Plaza, a seven-story office building in downtown New Orleans, which Sydney Besthoff...
Morris Arboretum: A living collection (2000)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Mar 00
...George Rickey’s Two lines (1988) stands atop the site where the Morris mansion, Compton, once stood, acting as a reminder of the structure, which was demolished in 1965 after years of neglect. Charles Layland’s Cotswold sheep (1980) graces the meandering drive at 125 percent of life-size, offers...
Continuum (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...George Rickey. Continuum involved close co-operation but not anonymous, collective work. The group employed modem materials such as neon light and plastics and maintained close contact with industry. See also Kinetic Art, Light Art, Technological Art, Time-Based Arts. References and further...
Constructivism (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...George Rickey, Willy Rotzler and Stephen Bann have extended the label to encompass later movements in Europe and North America. This prompted Ronald Hunt to remark in 1974: “Constructivism must be just about the most abused term in current art usage”. Historians found it necessary therefore to...
