Ricci studied at the Cooper Union and at the Art Students League with Bridgeman (drawing) and James Earl Fraser (sculpture). He also studied painting with Wayman Adams and Eric Pape.
He married Alma C. Ricci, daughter of Elisio V. Ricci, a building sculptor who worked at the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company and on buildings in New York and Washington, DC.
Ricci did the bronze doors and window screens for the entrance of the 42nd Street Bowery Savings Bank (NYC); they were exhibited at the 1926 Exposition in Rome where they were awarded a gold medal. His other works include the Platzburgh Monument at Platzburgh, NY; the pediment for the Arlington Memorial at the Arlington Cemetery, Washington, DC; bronze doors and sculpture for the Commerce Building in Washington, DC and for the Randall Memorial Library in Rochester, New York; and 35 figures for St. Anne's cathedral in Newark, New Jersey.
Ricci spent his summers in Rockport, Massachusetts. He was nominated to the NAD by James Earl Fraser.
