Melvin Edwards' welded steel sculptures address social issues and civil rights in abstract pieces that call on the viewer to interrogate the history of race in the U.S.

?Percy “Melvin” Edwards, passed away peacefully on January 10, 2021 after 22 months of challenges he endured caused by a debilitating stroke. Melvin was born on August 9, 1932 in Buckingham ...

“Melvin Edwards: Five Decades,” a traveling survey of about 90 sculptures, maquettes and drawings, is the first retrospective of the artist in over 20 years.

Melvin Edwards, “At Crossroads” (1984), welded steel, 10.5 x 8 x 8.88 inches (courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. ©2014 Melvin Edwards / Artist’s ...

Four welded sculptures, two from the 1970s and two from the 2000s, include two examples from Edwards’s Lynch Fragment series — Now We Know (1979) and Iraq (2003) — as well as a Rocker, a ...

Melvin Edwards is an internationally acclaimed artist, but back in 1970, when he became the first Black sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, he was received ...

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Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam and William T. Williams: Abstract Artists and Old Friends The trio first had their work exhibited together at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1969.

Melvin Edwards, 63, a retired teacher and coach at Highland Park High School, died July 5 at home in Highland Park. He was born in Gary, Ind., and lived in Highland Park for the past 33 years. He i… ...

And though Edwards doesn't shirk from this interpretation, as he was creating the first in the series in the 1960's, he's quick to offer a simpler explanation. "It's like making a baby.

Melvin E. Edwards, age 74, of Plainfield, IL died Friday, December 14, 2007 at his home. He was born August 21,1933 in Detroit, MI. Mr. Edwards was a consultant for over 40 year in the Pharmaceutic… ...