Object number2009.1.20

Two Open Trapezoids, One Up, One Down

Date1980

Artist George Rickey (American, 1907 - 2002)

CultureAmerican

MediumStainless steel

Edition1/3

DimensionsW/O Base: 58 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (149.23 x 31.75 x 19.69 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Virginia Herrick Deknatel, class of 1929

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Sculpture

Signedsigned on base

Vassar Exhibitions

A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryGeroge Rickey, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA, October 8 - November 2, 1983;

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel," June 24 - September 4, 2011.

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection," July 12 - September 8, 2013.

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