Lewis, Edmonia

has biography | a une biographie: American sculptor of mixed African-American and Native American (Mississauga Ojibwe) heritage in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lewis worked for many years in Rome and lived in Paris and London in her later life. She is buried in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Kensal Green. Although the majority of her works are currently located in the United States, there are two pieces by Lewis in the United Kingdom: a bust of Christ at Mount Stuart in Scotland and a bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
has nationality | a la nationalité: United States of America
has type | est de type: artist

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Art UK; Joanna Moorhead, 'Feted, forgotten, redeemed: how Edmonia Lewis made her mark', The Observer, October 10, 2021; Caitlin Meehye Beach, Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022); Charmaine A. Nelson, The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007); Kirsten Buick, Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010)