L/E Book By GEORGE RICKEY re His SCULPTURE CONSTRUCTION Start Price USD 60.00 Current Price USD 60.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 29, 2008 End Time Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'L/E Book By GEORGE RICKEY re His SCULPTURE CONSTRUCTION' Description E N T H U S I A S T We purchase American Artist Estates as well as American art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books and catalogs for the lover of American prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: From a limited edition of 500 copies, this is a catalogue privately printed by Rickey with English text entitled GEORGE RICKEY TECHNOLOGY reproducing content of an exhibition catalogue Kunstalle Bielefeld, Germany, 1976. This catalog was printed and bound by Chatham Printers, New York [which we believe was Rickey's firm] in 1992. Its about 40 pages, illustrated in black and white throughout, 8vo size FINE condition. ********** See below for our COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS! PLEASE READ the description provided above carefully prior to purchase, and please examine the photo or photos provided, since those detail exactly what you are purchasing.  If you have any questions please email us prior to purchase.   We have thousands of happy customers all around the world! Thank you for your WONDERFUL Feedback! We are downsizing a large art library and large art collection--please see our other listings by checking out our other items! and visit our Enthusiast Books eBay Store by clicking >>  PAYMENT IS EXPECTED WITHIN 7 DAYS FROM END OF AUCTION. SHIPPING: We ship only via USPS. 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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. Around 1959 he began to simplify forms, working with thin blades in vertical and horizontal configurations driven by wind rather by mechanical means. Of these works, both freestanding and suspended, he has said, "I have worked for several years with the simple movement of straight lines, as they cut each other, slice the intervening space, and divide time, responding to the greatest air currents." (Baigell 301) George Rickey lived and worked in East Chatham, New York. Place a Bid!