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Bookmark or Share- Melvin Edwards | Ready Now Now (Lynch Fragment) | The Metropolitan ...Artist: Melvin Edwards (American, born Houston, 1937) Date: 1988. Medium: Welded steel. Dimensions: 10 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (26.7 × 28.6 × 26 cm) Weight: 17.1 lb. (7.8 kg) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: Hortense and William A. Mohr Sculpture Purchase Fund, 1991. Accession Number: 1991.202
- Melvin Edwards | Smithsonian American Art MuseumMelvin Edwards is an African American sculptor who grew up in a segregated Houston community. He graduated from art school in 1965 at the height of the civil rights movement, and began to create works that symbolized African American life because "it seemed logical that . . .
- Melvin Edwards | Hammer MuseumMelvin Edwards. See all works by Melvin Edwards. Melvin Edwards left his hometown of Houston in 1955 to study at Los Angeles City College. Later he transferred to the University of Southern California (USC) to play football and study art. There he painted, took drawing courses, and learned to weld.
- Melvin Edwards | Exhibitions & Projects | Exhibitions | DiaThis exhibition presents a group of previously unrealized installations from one of sculptor Melvin Edwards’ most dynamic bodies of work. In a brief but prolific period between 1969 and 1970, Edwards developed a series of environmentally scaled sculptures using steel from barbed wire.
- Melvin Edwards | MoMAMelvin "Mel" Edwards (born May 4, 1937) is an American artist, teacher, and abstract steel-metal sculptor. Additionally he has worked in drawing and printmaking. His artwork has political content often referencing African-American history, as well as the exploration of themes within slavery.
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