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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
  • 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.