George Rickey Across Time 

In partnership with the George Rickey Foundation, The Hyde Collection presents an exhibition of American artist George Rickey (1907–2002), a pioneer of kinetic sculpture. Rickey’s stainless steel abstractions, found in museum collections worldwide, mesmerize audiences with their sophisticated geometries, engineered to move in response to the slightest of air currents. Combining the skills of an engineer with his deeply intellectual investment in the history of art, Rickey created innovative works that highlight the intersections between art, industry, and theory.

From elegant table-top sculptures to larger wall, floor, and ceiling-mounted pieces, George Rickey Across Time explores the multiple formal categories—lines, triangles, open or closed squares and rectangles, and circles—the artist explored over the course of four decades. Three outdoor works will be on view through spring 2026 on The Hyde’s grounds, two on loan from the Rickey Foundation and one from The Hyde’s important Feibes & Schmitt gift. The exhibition also includes drawings, prints, and embossments in which Rickey worked out his sculptural language in two dimensions, as well as some early paintings—revealing Rickey’s evolution from 1930s modernism to his signature idiom in the 1960s and beyond.

George Rickey Across Time  is organized by the George Rickey Foundation, Inc., and drawn from its collection. This showing is augmented with works from The Hyde Collection.

Outdoor works on view through April 26, 2026.

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