LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Melvin Edwards
The Fourth Circle1966

Not on view
Welded steel abstract sculpture with flat sheet-metal forms, open rings, parallel vertical rods, and a horizontal structural beam, photographed in black and white
Artist or Maker
Melvin Edwards
United States, Texas, Houston, 1937 - 2026
Title
The Fourth Circle
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1966
Medium
Black painted steel
Dimensions
48 x 72 x 60 in. (121.92 x 182.88 x 152.4 cm)
Credit Line
Contemporary Art Council, New Talent Purchase Award
Accession Number
M.67.12
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice. Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Craft, Catherine. Melvin Edwards: Five Decades. Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2015.
  • Jones, Kellie. South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Copyright
© Melvin Edwards/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Related Unframed

In Memoriam: Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)
In Memoriam: Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)
  • April 3, 2026
  • Lauren Hanson