# Melvin Edwards

> American artist (1937-2026)

**Wikidata**: [Q3305305](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3305305)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Edwards)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/melvin-edwards


## References

1. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art online collection
2. [Pioneering Sculptor Melvin Edwards Has Died Aged 88. Frieze](https://www.frieze.com/article/melvin-edwards-obituary)
3. Virtual International Authority File
4. Museum of Modern Art online collection
5. [Poetry (for Jayne Cortez). Gulf Coast](https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/28.1/poetry-for-jayne-cortez/)
6. [Alexander Gray Associates](https://www.alexandergray.com/usr/library/documents/main/artists/28/edwards_-2026_03_31_cv.pdf)
7. Union List of Artist Names. 2020
8. Guggenheim Fellows database
9. Smithsonian American Art Museum person/institution ID
10. African American Visual Artists Database
11. [Union List of Artist Names](http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500108626)
12. St. James Guide to Black Artists
13. International Standard Name Identifier
14. Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
15. MusicBrainz
16. [Source](https://studiomuseum.org/article/smokehouse-1968-1970)
17. Benezit Dictionary of Artists
18. SNAC
19. RKDartists
20. [Source](https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1635000109/BIC?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=5c0dc608)
21. IdRef
22. Museum of Modern Art
23. [ADAGP directory](https://www.adagp.fr/fr/mysearch/rp_rights?keyword=Melvin+Edwards)
24. DACS register
25. ADAGP directory
26. [Source](https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=&bSuggest=1&searchNameID=19086)
27. Metropolitan Museum of Art
28. [Source](https://www.artsbma.org/collection/premonition-part-of-the-lynch-fragment-series/)
29. [Source](https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/melvin-e-edwards)
30. [Source](https://triarte.brynmawr.edu/artist-maker/info/27290)
31. [Source](https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/people/24045/)
32. [Source](https://library.si.edu/art-and-artist-files)
33. [Source](https://archives.nypl.org/sca/177426#c1766303)
34. [Source](https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1cl1g8d/alma992430163504896)