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Melvin Edwards

Scales of Injustice

2016

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Melvin Edwards

Scales of Injustice

2016

Physical Qualities Barbed wire, chain, and steel, Element 1 (area enclosed with barbed wire): 144 × 144 × 203 5/8 in. (365.8 × 365.8 × 517.3 cm.) Element 2 (min. height of prism ceiling): 144 in. (365.8 cm.); (max. height of prism ceiling): 192 in. (487.7 cm.) Element 3 (suspended steel platform): 69 × 1/16 × 16 in. 10 lb. (175.3 × 0.2 × 40.6 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Object Number 2018.108
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2019

Artist

Melvin Edwards

b. 1936

born Houston, TX 1937; died Baltimore, MD 2026
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