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Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI

sculpture in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ59155684 ↗
Source-derived summary

Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI is a 1977 stainless steel sculpture by George Rickey, installed outside the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The abstract, kinetic sculpture was donated by the family of the Albert Fullerton Miller.

Editorial summary

“Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI” enters the record as sculpture in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lines, Excentric and Variation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lines, Excentric and Variation.
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Why this record matters

“Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lines, Excentric and Variation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q59155684. Authority coordinates are 39.965, -82.988. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Two Lines Up Excentric Variation VI” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.