Object Details
Artist
Melvin Edwards
Date
1969
Medium
Stainless steel and painted steel
Dimensions
96 x 1/2 in. (243.8 x 1.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, and through the generosity of individual donors
Object
Number
69.089
This sculpture is installed at the Appel Commons Community Center off Cradit Farm Drive. Melvin Edwa(…)
This sculpture is installed at the Appel Commons Community Center off Cradit Farm Drive. Melvin Edwards begins with ideas and proceeds to thought-provoking shapes. This work, commissioned by Tom Leavitt (the Museum’s first director, from 1968 to 1991) for Cornell, is a tribute to the encouragement offered by his father to the sculptor as he developed into a mature artist. Its two evocative shapes may suggest their relationship: a large reflective disk, and two rows of steps based on the step pyramid at Saqqara, Egypt, honoring the eternal life of the pharaoh, Djoser.
