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Edmonia (Mary Edmonia) Lewis

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Edmonia (Mary Edmonia) Lewis (1845 - 1907) was active/lived in Massachusetts, California / Italy.  Edmonia Lewis is known for Sculpture-Indian figure.

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 (Mary) Edmonia Lewis was a Neo-Classical sculptor of figural work in carved marble. The daughter of a Chippewa Indian mother and a black father she experienced much discrimination. Her work was expressive of the emotions she felt from these experiences.

She was born in 1845 near Albany, New York where she was orphaned at age four and raised by her mother's tribe with whom she had a nomadic existence until she was twelve. In 1856, with the support of some abolitionists, she enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio, the first interracial college in the United States. She studied liberal arts but became the subject of scandal when she was accused of trying to give poison wine to several coeds. She was subsequently beaten severely by a vigilante mob. Defended by a black lawyer she was acquitted when the so-called poison turned out to be aphrodisiac.

Lewis then went to Boston in 1865 where she studied sculpture with Edward Augustus Brackett, and her first work was a medallion honor   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8755 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  44
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Edmonia (Mary Edmonia) Lewis
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review African American Women Sculptors February 1998 AR editors Yes
Art & Auction Eye on American October 1997 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
American Art Review Edmonia Lewis's Cleopatra October 1996 AR editors Yes
ARTnews Vasari Diary September 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review Edmonia Lewis & H W Longfellow February 1995 Burgard, Timothy Yes
44 Book References for Edmonia (Mary Edmonia) Lewis
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Pollack, Deborah C. Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South 400 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists 176 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Kelley, Harmon; D. Hyland, G. Coker, et all The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Ketner, Joseph D Emergence of the African-American Artist/Robert S Duncanson 1821-1872 233 Yes
1993 Perry, Regina A Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art 203 Yes
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1990 Boime, Albert The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century 256 No
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 190 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Tufts, Eleanor (others) American Women Artists 1830-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Hartigan, Lynda R Sharing Traditions Five Black Artists in 19th Century America
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1970 Lynes, Russell The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America 514 No
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
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