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Object Label
Melvin Edwards’s weighty sculptures combine nails, tools, gears, and other metal objects to create abstract compositions. This work belongs to his extensive series Lynch Fragments, begun in the 1960s and inspired by Ralph Ginzburg’s 100 Years of Lynching (1962), a collection of newspaper reports of lynchings that was published to commemorate the centennial of the Civil War. The Lynch Fragments sculptures, generally shown suspended at eye level, evoke this history of violence through their jarring forms and rough welding.
Caption
Melvin Edwards American, born 1937. Takawira - J, 1989. Welded steel, 14 x 10 x 9 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Edward A. Bragaline, by exchange, 1990.104. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1990.104_edited_PS9.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
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Collection
Artist
Title
Takawira - J
Date
1989
Medium
Welded steel
Classification
Dimensions
14 x 10 x 9 in.
Credit Line
Gift of Edward A. Bragaline, by exchange
Accession Number
1990.104
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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