RICKEY, George

Alexander Calder 's innovation (of a nonmechanical, kinetic, three-dimensional art) was so different from traditional sculpture that his sort of work, apparently requiring competences different from those learned in art school, had remarkably few successors. The most important, as well as original, successor has been George Rickey , a Scotsman who has spent most of his life in the United States (and learned mechanics in the U.S. Army Air Corps). His delicately poised pieces...