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 (book)|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 and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis|Hiawatha]]*, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1868
* *[[Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis|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

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

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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.&nbsp;99–110. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
*Richardson, Marilyn (2011). "Sculptor's Death Unearthed: Edmonia Lewis Died in 1907," ARTFIX*daily*, January 9, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
*Richardson, Marilyn (2011). "Three Indians in Battle by Edmonia Lewis," *Maine Antique Digest*, Jan. 2011, p.&nbsp;10-A. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
*Richardson, Marilyn (1986). "Vita: Edmonia Lewis," *Harvard Magazine*, March 1986. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
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*Rindfleisch, Jan (2017). *Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Arts Community*. pp.&nbsp;61–62. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press.  
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*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.