Two Planes Vertical-Horizontal
Artist
George Rickey
(American, 1907 - 2002)
Date1968
MediumStainless steel
DimensionsOverall: 216 × 150 inches (548.64 × 381 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Former gift of the Sosland Family to Kansas City, Missouri
Object number2002.13
On View
On viewGallery Location
- Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park
Collections
DescriptionTwo stainless steel panels, each approximately 60 x 60 inches square, rotate vertically, and revolve around the axis of a stainless steel post.Gallery LabelGeorge Rickey was an accomplished kinetic sculptor, whose work, such as Two Planes Vertical-Horizontal, was inspired by the mobiles of Alexander Calder. His simple, stainless steel forms are activated and balanced through a system of meticulously engineered counterweights and bearings, air currents and the pull of gravity. In Two Planes Vertical-Horizontal, the large, dynamic, silent planes continually activate and redefine the space around them.
Gift
of the Sosland Family to the City of Kansas City, MO;
Purchased by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO from the City of Kansas City, 2002.
Alice
Thorson, “Is ‘Two Planes’ Same and Sound?” The
Kansas City Star (July 30, 2006).
Copyright© Estate of George Rickey/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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