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George Rickey receives the Skowhegan School Painting and Sculpture Medal from Lloyd Goodrich, Advisory Director of the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1973.
George Rickey receives an honorary doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, May 1990.
1960
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship (renewed 1961)
1968
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berliner Künstlerprogramm (German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin Artists Program), West Germany, stipend, (renewed 1969)
1970
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1972
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Letters, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Fine Arts Award, American Institute of Architects
1973
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Medal
Dillon Visiting Fellow, Groton School, Groton, MA
Sculpture commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts for their Annual Award
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Letters, Union College, Schenectady, NY
1974
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1975
Award for Sculpture, Indiana Arts Commission
1977
Elected Honorary Member of the Indiana Academy
Certificate of Appreciation in Art and Architecture, General Services Administration
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1978
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters, York University, Toronto, Canada
1979
Creative Arts Award Medal, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1981
Citation, National Association of Schools of Art
1983
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1986
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
New York State Governor's Arts Award, Albany, NY
Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence, Atlanta, GA
1987
Elected to Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1989
City of Concord Design Award, Excellence in Integration of Sculpture and Landscape, Concord, CA
1990
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1993
Verdienstkreuz, 1. Klasse (Order of Merit, First Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany
1995
Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1996
The Lord Provost's Award 1996, City of Glasgow, Scotland, in Recognition of Services to the Visual Arts
1999
Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
2000
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
