Falls, NY, and many other institutions. In 1985, George Rickey had a major retrospective in South Bend, Indiana, the place of his birth. His sculptures were installed outside (and inside) of the South Bend Art Center, and also at the Snite Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Rickey gave a presentation of his work at the Snite. One of the stories he told concerned how, as a result of a World War II-era, government-administered aptitude test, he was assigned to design machine gun turrets for bombers. It was in this job that he became familiar with the high-quality ball bearings, balancing weights, riveted sheet metal, lightweight aircraft construction techniques, and modern hardware (and the vendors for same) that were to become the mechanical foundation for his later forays into lightweight, delicately balanced, wind-activated kinetic sculpture. Rickey died at his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on July 17, 2002, at the age of 95. The Rickey Estate is currently represented by Kasmin Gallery in New York City. The Rickey archive will have a permanent home at Notre Dame. Gallery Honors and awards (1999) Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center. See also Double L Excentric Gyratory Indianapolis Art Center which hosted the retrospective show A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI (1977), Columbus, Ohio References Honolulu Museum of Art, Spalding House Self-guided Tour, Sculpture Garden, 2014, p. 13 Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County, Master's Degree Project, 1989. Lizzi, Maria. Archivist, George Rickey Workshop, East Chatham, NY New Jersey State Museum, Sculptures by George Rickey and James Seawright, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1970. Popper, Frank, Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society, 1968. Thalacker, Donald, The Place of Art In the World of Architecture, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1980, pp. 61–63. External links The George Rickey Foundation George Rickey on artnet Monographs Art Cyclopedia article Cluster of Four Cubes at National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden - video 5' 6" Biography and available works Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany "In Search of the Chrinitoid", an article about Rickey's work at RPI. Photos of George Rickey Sculptures George Rickey in the National Gallery of Australia Kenneth Tyler Collection 1907 births 2002 deaths Modern sculptors American abstract artists 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists