The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 10, 2024
À Lusaka
1982
(American, b. 1937)
29.6 x 19.4 x 14 cm (11 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2021.163
© Melvin Edwards / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: 229B Contemporary
Did You Know?
Lynch Fragments are hung at eye-level (determined by the artist’s height) to invite a direct encounter with the viewer.Description
À Lusaka (1982) belongs to an ongoing series, Lynch Fragments, which Melvin Edwards began in 1963. The Lynch Fragments are small-scale abstract wall reliefs that feature recognizable objects—often objects that could serve as weapons, such as chains, knives, and railroad spikes. Through Edwards’s composition and welding technique, familiar elements shed their functional associations, becoming lines and shapes in space, and yielding innovative sculptural forms.- "Melvin Edwards: Crossroads." Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2019, Exhibition brochure, p. 17.
- Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1-September 25, 2022).
- {{cite web|title=À Lusaka|url=false|author=Melvin Edwards|year=1982|access-date=10 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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