Safe Journey, (sculpture).

Safe Journey, (sculpture).

Edwards, Melvin, 1937- , sculptor.

Safe Journey, (sculpture).

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Sculpture: stainless steel; Base: concrete.

Sculpture: approx. 10 x 6 x 5 ft.; Base: approx. H. 5 in. x Diam. 7 ft.

(Along lower bottom edge of sculpture, in cursive, raised letters:) Melvin Edwards (Along lower side edge of sculpture, raised letters:) (artist's monogram)/91/./93 signed

Abstract sculpture comprised of nine geometric shapes welded together and finished with a swirling surface treatment of scratched burnishings, set on circular foundation.

Abstract -- Geometric

Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Eatontown

State of New Jersey, Motor Vehicle Services Inspection Station, Route 36 West & Marin Drive, Eatontown, New Jersey

The sculpture was commissioned through the states percent for art program. Nearby plaque reads: "Safe Journey: (1992)/Stainless steel/Melvin Edwards/Commissioned/under the Public Building/Arts inclusion act of 1978/New Jersey State Council on the arts/Department of State. For related information see: Lucinda H. Gedeon's "Melvin Edwards Sculpture: A Thirty-Year Retrospective, 1963-1993," [Purchase, N.Y.]: Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase: Seattle; Distributed by the University of Washington Press, c1993.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.

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