Afrophoenix No. 1

1. The artist. Sold to Theresa Lackritz (1902-1991), Chicago, by 1991 [email from GRAY Chicago; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to the family [Neuberger 1993]; sold through Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 14, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Harrison, NY, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, Melvin Edwards. Sculpture: A Thirty Year Retrospective 1963–1993, Apr. 4-June 27, 1993, cat. 3.
• Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art Sculpture, 1945-1980, Oct. 1, 2011–Feb. 5, 2012, no cat. no.; Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, as Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Los Angeles, 1950–1980, Mar. 15–June 10, 2012.
• Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Melvin Edwards: Five Decades, Jan. 31–May 10, 2015, pl. 3; New Brunswick, NJ, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Sept. 1, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016; Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art, Feb. 12–May 8, 2016, as Afrophoenix I (Lynch Fragment).
• New York, The Jewish Museum, New York: 1962–1964, July 22, 2022–Jan. 8, 2023, not in cat.
• Fort Worth, TX, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940, Mar. 10, 2024-July 28, 2024, not in cat.

• Lucinda H. Gedeon, Lowery Stokes Sims, Michael Brenson, and Josephine Gear, Melvin Edwards, Sculpture: A Thirty-Year Retrospective, 1963-1993, exh. cat. (Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, 1993), 34, pl. 7 (ill.), 124, cat. 3.
• Andrea D. Barnwell, “Portfolio,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 209, no. 20.
• Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 187.
• Rebecca Peabody and Lucy Bradnock, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art Sculpture, 1945-1980, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), 117, fig. 2.53 (ill).
• Catherine Craft, with Alex Potts, Tobias Wofford, and Leigh A. Arnold, Melvin Edwards: Five Decades, exh. cat. (Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2015), 15, 52, 61, 62, 76, pl. 3, 77 (color ill.), 204, as Afrophoenix I (Lynch Fragment).

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Nighthawks

Art Institute of Chicago

Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ideal Pastoral Life

Art Institute of Chicago

Interior

Art Institute of Chicago

A Holiday

Art Institute of Chicago

Gloucester Mansions

Art Institute of Chicago

Night on the El Train

Art Institute of Chicago

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