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Digital Archive Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980
Art Melvin Edwards, The Lifted X
The Lifted X, by Melvin Edwards, 1965

Melvin Edwards, Artist
The Lifted X , 1965

Medium
Steel
Dimensions
65 x 45 x 22 in. (165.1 x 114.3 x 55.9 cm)
Credit Line
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds, 2013. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART, Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates

The title of this sculpture pays homage to Malcolm X, who was assassinated at the time it was being created. The Lifted X was first shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where Edwards had his first solo exhibition in 1965.