Edmonia Lewis

Mary Edmonia Lewis, ka bɛ lahi mi o ni "Wildfire" ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli July dabaanahi dali , yuuni 1844 ni, ka o kani silimiingoli September bɛɣu pinaayɔpoin dali , 1907 yuuni) o nyɛla ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma din jendi binyɛra kpebu, ka silimiingi bɔlili ni sculptor.

Bɛ dɔɣi o la tinŋyuli booni Upstate New York ka o nyɛ mixed African-American nti pahi Native American (Mississauga Ojibwe).

In popular media

• Namesake of the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People at Oberlin College.
• Written about in Olio, which is a book of poetry written by Tyehimba Jess that was released in 2016. That book won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
• Honored with a Google Doodle on February 1, 2017.
• Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis, by Jeannine Atkins (2017), is a juvenile biographical novel in verse.
• A belated obituary was published in The New York Times in 2018 as part of their Overlooked series.
• The best-selling novel, La linea del colori: Il Grand Tour di Lafanu Brown, by Somalian Igiaba Scelgo (Florence: Giunti, 2020), in Italian, combines the characters of Edmonia Lewis and Sarah Parker Remond and is dedicated to Rome and to these two figures.
• She features as a "Great Artist" in the video game Civilization VI.
• Lewis is the subject of a stage play entitled "Edmonia" by Barry M. Putt, Jr., presented by Beacon Theatre Productions in Philadelphia, PA in 2021. "Edmonia" stage play. Archived Silimin gɔli February 7, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
• Lewis had a U.S. postal stamp unveiled in her honor on January 26, 2022.

O tuun kpana

• John Brown medallions, 1864–65
• Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (plaster), 1864
• Anne Quincy Waterston, 1866
• A Freed Woman and Her Child, 1866
• The Old Arrow-Maker and His Daughter, 1866
• The Marriage of Hiawatha, 1866–67
• Forever Free, 1867
• Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (marble), 1867–68
• Hagar in the Wilderness, 1868
• Madonna Holding the Christ Child, 1869
• Hiawatha, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1868
• Minnehaha, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1868
• Indian Combat, Carrara marble, 30" high, collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1868
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1869–71
• Bust of Abraham Lincoln, 187022,
• Asleep, 1872
• Awake, 1872
• Poor Cupid, 1873
• Moses, 1873
• Bust of James Peck Thomas, 1874, collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, her only known portrait of a freed slave
• Hygieia, 1874
• Hagar, 1875
• The Death of Cleopatra, marble, 1876, collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
• John Brown, 1876, Rome, plaster bust
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1876, Rome, plaster bust
• General Ulysses S. Grant, 1877–78
• Veiled Bride of Spring, 1878
• John Brown, 1878–79
• The Adoration of the Magi, 1883
• Charles Sumner, 1895

Gallery

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  Edmonia Lewis, Anna Quincy Waterston, 1866, photo by David Finn, ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
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  Edmonia Lewis, Poor Cupid, 1872–1876, photo by David Finn, ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
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  Edmonia Lewis, Young Octavian, 1873, photo by David Finn, ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
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  Edmonia Lewis, Hagar, 1875, photo by David Finn, ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
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  Edmonia Lewis, Old Arrow Maker, 1866–1872, photo by David Finn, ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

Posthumous exhibitions

• Art of the American Negro Exhibition, American Negro Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1940.
• Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1967.
• “The White, Marmorean Flock”: Nineteenth-Century Women Neoclassical Sculptors," Vassar College, New York, 1972.
• Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, 2008.
• Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 18 –May 3, 1995.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., June 7, 1996 – April 14, 1997.
• Wildfire Test Pit, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, August 30, 2016 – June 12, 2017.
• Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, (2019), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
• Edmonia Lewis' Bust of Christ, Mount Stuart, UK

Nyami yaha

• List of female sculptors
• Samuel Lewis House (Bozeman, Montana): Brother's house in Montana
• Moses Jacob Ezekiel, another American sculptor in Rome around the same time period, and also included in 1876 Philadelphia exposition.
• Women in the art history field

O lahibali

• Buick, Kirsten Pai (2010). Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4266-3. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• Chadwick, Whitney (2012). Women, Art, and Society (5th ed.). New York, NY: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 9780500204054.
• The Death of Cleopatra.
• Gold, Susanna W. (Spring 2012). "The death of Cleopatra / the birth of freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the new world's fair". Biography 35 (2): 318–324. DOI:10.1353/bio.2012.0014.
• Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe (1985). Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America: From the Collections of the National Museum of American Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. OCLC 11398839.
• Henderson, Harry; Henderson, Albert (2012). The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis: a narrative biography. Esquiline Hill Press. ISBN 978-1-58863-451-1.
• Katz, William L.; Franklin, Paula A. (1993). "Edmonia Lewis: Sculptor". Proudly Red and Black: Stories of African and Native Americans. New York: Maxwell Macmillan. ISBN 978-0689318016. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• May, Stephen (September 1996). "The Object at Hand". Smithsonian. p. 20. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
• Nelson, Charmaine A. (2007). The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816646517. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• (2007) "Casting the first stone". History Today 57 (10).
• Perry, Regenia A. (1992). Free within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art. ISBN 978-1566400732. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• Pickett, Mary (March 1, 2002). "Samuel W. Lewis: Orphan leaves mark on Bozeman". Billings Gazette. http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/samuel-w-lewis-orphan-leaves-mark-on-bozeman/article_bf7abce6-bbf5-5fe2-8269-d891f9e0682a.html.
• Plowden, Martha W. (1994). "Edmonia Lewis-Sculptor". Famous Firsts of Black Women (2nd ed.). Gretna: Pelican Company. ISBN 978-1565541979. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• Richardson, Marilyn (2009). "Edmonia Lewis and Her Italian Circle," in Serpa Salenius, ed., Sculptors, Painters, and Italy: ItalianInfluence on Nineteenth-Century American Art, Padua, Italy: Il Prato Casa Editrice, pp. 99–110. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
• Richardson, Marilyn (2011). "Sculptor's Death Unearthed: Edmonia Lewis Died in 1907," ARTFIXdaily, January 9, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
• Richardson, Marilyn (2011). "Three Indians in Battle by Edmonia Lewis," Maine Antique Digest, Jan. 2011, p. 10-A. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
• Richardson, Marilyn (1986). "Vita: Edmonia Lewis," Harvard Magazine, March 1986. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
• (July 1995) "Edmonia Lewis' The Death Of Cleopatra: Myth And Identity". The International Review of African American Art 12 (2).
• Richardson, Marilyn (Summer 2008). "Edmonia Lewis at McGrawville: The early education of a nineteenth-century black women artist". Nineteenth-Century Contexts 22: 239–256. DOI:10.1080/08905490008583510.
• Rindfleisch, Jan (2017). Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Arts Community. pp. 61–62. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press. ISBN 978-0-9983084-0-1
• "Sculptor Edmonia Lewis' 'Cleopatra' revived and on view in Washington: Heritage Corner". New York Amsterdam News 87 (22): p. 37. June 1, 1996. ISSN 1059-1818. Tɛmplet:ProQuest.
• Wolfe, Rinna Evelyn (1998). Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble. Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press. ISBN 0-382-39714-2. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• Woods, Naurice Frank (1993). Insuperable Obstacles: The Impact of Racism on the Creative and Personal Development of Four Nineteenth Century African American Artists. M.A. thesis. Cincinnati: Union Institute. Retrieved February 1, 2017.

Further reading

• Bearden, Romare (1993). A History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present. Pantheon Books, Random House. ISBN 0-394-57016-2. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
• Buick, Kirsten P. The Ideal Works of Edmonia Lewis: Invoking and Inverting Autobiography (PDF). pp. 190–207. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
• Farrington, Lisa E. (2005). Creating Their Own Images: The History of African-American Women Artists. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Richardson, Marilyn (1999). "Edmonia Lewis". In National Council of Learned Societies (ed.). American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1701145.
• Richardson, Marilyn (October 10, 2008). Edmonia Lewis and the Boston of Italy. The City and the Book V: International Conference on Americans in Florence's 'English' Cemetery.
• Rindfleisch, Jan (2017), with articles by Maribel Alvarez and Raj Jayadev, edited by Nancy Hom and Ann Sherman. Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Arts Community. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press. ISBN 978-0-9983084-0-1