Melvin Edwards: Works

Melvin Edwards: Works
Front cover of the exhibition pamphlet published by the museum
Date2–29 March 1970
VenueWhitney Museum, New York
CuratorRobert M. Doty

Melvin Edwards: Works is the title of a solo art exhibition by American sculptor Melvin Edwards hosted at the Whitney Museum in New York in March 1970. The exhibition - the first solo show by an African-American sculptor at the Whitney - featured four abstract barbed wire and chain installation pieces created by Edwards.

The show received little and negative critical attention immediately following its run but was defended later by other critics and cited as an influential exhibition for other African-American abstract artists.

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