Ulysses Ricci was an American

United States

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 sculptor

Sculpture

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 known primarily for his architectural sculpture

Architectural sculpture

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. Born in New York City

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, Ricci was an apprentice at the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Works in New Jersey

New Jersey

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 from 1902 to 1906. He studied at Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

 Institute and at the Art Students League with James Earle Fraser and George Bridgman

George Bridgman

George Brant Bridgman was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years....

. He opened his own studio in 1914 and was a partner in the firm Ricci & Zari from 1917 to 1941.

• Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Albert Kahn, architect, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1920
• Bowery Savings Bank
  Bowery Savings Bank
  The Bowery Savings Bank of New York City was chartered in May 1834 and is now part of Capital One Bank.-History:Opened in 1834 on the Bowery in NYC. By 1980 it had over 35 branches located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. When bank deregulation was enacted the bank...
  
  , NYC, York & Sawyer architects, 1922
• Wisconsin Hardware Ltd.