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. 
 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 

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

Baŋbu

Kundivihira

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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.


Rindfleisch, Jan (2017). Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Arts Community. pp. 61–62. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press.  




Further reading







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. 

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