KINETIC SCULPTURE

Abstract

Although bom in South Bend, Indiana, Rickey lived in Scotland, England, and the Continent from his fifth year until he returned to the United States twenty years later. He took his degree in modern history from Oxford but studied art at the Ruskin School and the Académie Lhote in Paris. In retrospect Rickey comments: “I don’t even lmow whether I was, in Scotland, an expatriate from America or whether I am now an expatriate from Europe.” There is a happy quality in Rickey’s works, a lithe infectiousness which at first belies the precision-tooling and delicate engineering which give momentum to his imaginative constructions.