Two Horizontal Lines

George Warren Rickey, American, 1907 - 2002

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1966

Stainless steel

Overall: 36 in. (91.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist

S.966.40

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

Exhibition History

Artists at Dartmouth, A Retrospective of Selected Artists-in-Residence at Darthmouth College since 1962, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September-October, 1971; Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, October 14-30, 1971; Montgomery Museum, Montgomery, Alabama, April-May 1972.

Contemporary Art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 2, 1975.

Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.

Hopkins Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Artists-In-Residence at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 12-May 22, 1988.

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.

Modern Sculpture, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, April 20-June 10, 1968.

Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, In Relationship: Finding Balance in Modern American Sculpture, Madeline Thompson, Class of 2017, Kathyrn Conroy Programing Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.mthompson.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

Publication History

Peter Smith and Mathew Wysocki, Artists at Dartmouth, A retrospective of selected Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College since 1962, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1971, checklist.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 51 , no. 34

Provenance

The artist; given to present collection, 1966.

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