Edmonia Lewis
January 22, 2018
Edmonia Lewis was a renowned neoclassical sculptor in the late 1800s. However, her name is not widely known, and her work often falls under the radar. Not only did she lead a remarkable life, but so did one of her most important works, "Death of Cleopatra". Join the Babes as they discuss the life and career of Edmonia Lewis, the first female African American sculptor to gain international acclaim.
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Sources:
Buick, Kirsten. “The Ideal Works of Edmonia Lewis: Invoking and Inverting Autobiography.” American Art, Vol. 9, No. 2, (1995), 4-19.
Gold, Susanna. “The Death of Cleopatra/ The Birth of Freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the New World’s Fair.” Biography, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2012), 318-341.
Holland, Juanita Marie. “Mary Edmonia Lewis’s ‘Minnehaha’: Gender, race, and the ‘Indian Maid.’ Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 69, No. ½ (1995), 26-35.
Quinn, Bridget. Broad strokes: 15 women who made art and made history( in that order). San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2017.
Links:
May, Stephen. “The Object at Hand”. Smithsonian Magazine September 1996, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/1996/july/object_july96.php
Frost, Julieanna. “Re-Visioning Wildfire: Historical Interpretations of the Life and Art of Edmonia Lewis” http://www.se.edu/nas/files/2013/03/Proceedings-2005-Frost.pdf
http://the-toast.net/2015/11/02/the-life-and-death-of-edmonia-lewis/
https://heavy.com/news/2017/01/edmonia-lewis-sculptor-bio-google-doodle/