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        "tombstone": "Delta Theme IV, 1967. George Rickey (American, 1906\u20132002). 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. \u00a9  Estate of George Rickey / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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        "title": "Delta Theme IV",
        "creation_date": "1967",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1967,
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        "technique": "stainless steel",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 114.3 x 110.5 cm (45 x 43 1/2 in.)",
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                "height": 1.143,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9  Estate of George Rickey / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 311486,
                    "title": "Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary",
                    "description": "<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).",
                    "opening_date": "1992-10-27T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "1972: Los Angeles, California, UCLA Arts Council: \"George Rickey\" (NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1976), ill. #148, repr. p. 155.",
                    "opening_date": "1972-01-01T00:00:00"
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                    "description": "CMA 1993: \"Selected Acquisitions,\" Bulletin 80 (February 1993), p. 67, no. 57.",
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                "description": "(Staempfli Gallery, NY); Mary S.and Louis S. Myers",
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        "description": "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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                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1992.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38\u201379.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 67",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
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        "creditline": "Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mary S. and Louis S. Myers",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:37.341000"
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