id:			155872
accession number:	1991.174
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.174
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:43.966000

Delta Theme IV, 1967. George Rickey (American, 1906–2002). Stainless steel; overall: 114.3 x 110.5 cm (45 x 43 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mary S. and Louis S. Myers 1991.174 ©  Estate of George Rickey / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Delta Theme IV
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creation date:			1967
creation date earliest:		1967
creation date latest:		1967
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creditline:			Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mary S. and Louis S. Myers
copyright:			©  Estate of George Rickey / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	stainless steel
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* George Rickey (American, 1906–2002)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 114.3 x 110.5 cm (45 x 43 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary
	opening date:   1992-10-27T05:00:00
	<i>Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* 1972:  Los Angeles, California, UCLA Arts Council:  "George Rickey" (NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1976), ill. #148, repr. p. 155.

* CMA 1992:  Signs of Affection:  Gifts Honoring the Museum's Seventy-fifth Anniversary, October 27, 2993-January 17, 1993.

* CMA 1993:  "Selected Acquisitions," Bulletin 80 (February 1993), p. 67, no. 57.

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PROVENANCE

	(Staempfli Gallery, NY); Mary S.and Louis S. Myers
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Like the emerging minimalist sculptors, George Rickey was interested in working with restricted and repetitive geometric forms and elements. But within this deliberately narrow vocabulary, he wanted to explore endless variation. Rickey made the first of his "blade" sculptures in 1961. These consist of two or more long pendulums mounted on a vertical support to make possible "an infinite range of relationships of time and directions [within] a limited repertoire of possible movements," as he put it. Some later compositions such as Delta Theme IV consist of very thin blades balanced so that they come to rest on a diagonal. While his upright blade sculptures at rest convey axial stability, the oblique compositions suggest that all is in flux, even without actual motion.
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