George Rickey was born in South Bend, Indiana, grew up outside of Glasgow, Scotland and studied history at Balliol College in Oxford. His formal art training was under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Lhote and Académie Moderne in Paris. Following his discharge from the army in the 1940s he studied at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and the Chicago Institute of Design. Over the years his works were exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, documenta III in Kassel, and commissioned for several public spaces around the world. His works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Honolulu Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Art, among others.
