Publisher Description: Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844–1907) broke international, racial, and gender barriers as a talented young artist who traveled to Rome in 1866 to join the leading American sculptors of her generation. She created acclaimed figurative works in marble and achieved great success, but her status as a woman of African American and Indigenous (Mississauga) heritage complicated the critical reception of her oeuvre during her lifetime.  Following her death, Lewis’s contribution to American sculpture was largely overlooked.    Read more          

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