Curtain for Friends

© Melvin Edwards / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Curtain for Friends

Currently not on view

Curtain for Friends,

2015

Melvin Edwards, born 1937, Houston, TX; active Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY and Plainfield, NJ
Printed by Brodsky Center at PAFA
2017-12 a-b
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More About This Object

Magazine: Winter 2018

Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

Information

Title
Curtain for Friends
Dates

2015

Maker
Melvin Edwards
Printed by Brodsky Center at PAFA
Medium

Diptych; lithographs

Dimensions

sheet: 71.1 × 59.7 cm (28 × 23 1/2 in.)
71.1 × 119.4 cm (28 × 47 in.)
frame: 80 × 128.9 × 5.1 cm (31 1/2 × 50 3/4 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund

Object Number
2017-12 a-b
Signatures

Signed by artist lower right, beneath image on right-side sheet
Signed with his initials on lower right, beneath image on left-side sheet

Culture
American
Type
diptychs, lithographs, prints
Materials
paper (fiber product)
Techniques
lithography
Subject
barbed wire

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