| LC control no. | no 96049212 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lewis, Edmonia |
| Variant(s) | Lewis, Mary Edmonia |
| Other standard no. | 0000000140397012 187447029 Q512065 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Florence (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1844~ |
| Death date | 1909~ |
| Place of birth | Greenwich (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Expatriate artists Sculpture, Neoclassical Neoclassicism (Art) Figurative art Expatriate |
| Affiliation | Oberlin College |
| Profession or occupation | Sculptors |
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| Found in | Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, c1995: page 2 (sculptor, Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844-c. 1909); Mary Edmonia Lewis) Niatum, Duane. A blackbird in the White Marmorean flock, [between 2005 and 2007]: leaf 1 (Mary Edmonia Lewis; 1845?-1911?; first documented American woman sculptor of African-Indian descent) leaf 4 (Wildfire; documented, mixed Ojibwa Indian and African-American descent) leaf 7 (Ish-scoodah; Fire Flower--Ojibwa word for the cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lewis, Edmonia; sculptor; born 04 July 1845 in Greenwich, New York, United States; entered the ladies' preparatory program at Oberlin College (1859); moved to Boston with the intention of becoming an artist (1863); sailed for Florence, Italy (1865); established herself as a neoclassical sculptor; her studio was listed in all the fashionable guidebooks, was a frequent stop for American tourists (1860s and 1870s); produced “conceits” of which three survive: Poor Cupid (1873, National Museum of American Art [NMAA]), Asleep (1871), and Awake (1872), both in the San Jose Public Library; made several versions of the biblical figure Hagar, only one of which survives, Hagar (1868, NMAA); reached the pinnacle of her career at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition with the exhibition of Death of Cleopatra (1876); died c.1911, place unknown) |
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