The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announced that a major work by American sculptor George Rickey is catching the eye of visitors to Penn State’s University Park campus. Breaking Column III, a monumental stainless-steel sculpture completed by the artist in 2001, has been installed on the museum’s distinctive plaza on Curtin Road. On loan from a private collection, this major sculpture by an iconic American artist will be on view through November 2019. One of the most celebrated kinetic sculptors of the twentieth century, Rickey made his first mobile during his service in World War II and turned his full attention to making kinetic sculpture in the late 1940s. His signature stainlesssteel sculptures are comprised of “ordinary shapes,” in Rickey’s words, that are expertly engineered to respond to air currents and gravitational pull with deliberate, graceful, and unpredictable movements. Just over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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