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ID: 500128440
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500128440
 
Record Type: Person
Lewis, Edmonia (American sculptor, 1844-1907)

Note: Lewis was the first African-American sculptor and woman to receive international recognition. Her mother was a Chippewa Indian and her father a freeman of African descent. She studied liberal arts at Oberlin college before she moved to Boston. There she apprenticed with the sculptor Edward Brackett until she opened a studio of her own. She moved to Rome in 1865 for nine years and returned to the United States to critical acclaim. On tombstone and associated information (St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London Borough of Brent, Greater London, England) life dates are 1844-1907 (born 4 Jul 1844 in East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York, United States of America, died 17 Sep 1907 in London, City of London, Greater London, England).

Names:
Lewis, Edmonia (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Edmonia Lewis (V,display)
Lewis, Mary (V)
Lewis, Mary Edmonia (V)
Mary Edmonia Lewis (V)
Wildfire (V)
Lewis, Wildfire (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Native American
African American
Ojibwa (Chippewa)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Albany (Albany county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Hammersmith (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (neighborhood)

Events:
active:   Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   Rome (Roma province, Lazio, Italy) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Brackett, Edward Augustus  
..................  (American sculptor and author, 1818-1908) [500006243]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Lewis, Edmonia (I)

Biographies:
(American sculptor, 1844-1907) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American sculptor, 1845-1900) ..... [BHA]
(Native American artist, born 1845-1911) ..... [BVRL]
(American sculptor, 1845-1911) ..... [Grove Art]
(American sculptor, 1843-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Edmonia Lewis ........ [VP]
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 40
Lewis, Edmonia ........ [BHA Preferred, BVRL-UNM Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..............................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..............................  Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (2000-)
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 123202
Lewis, Mary ........ [BVRL-UNM]
........................  Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (2000-)
Lewis, Mary Edmonia ........ [BVRL-UNM, Grove Art, VP]
.......................................  Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (2000-)
.......................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.......................................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 40
Lewis, Wildfire ........ [Grove Art]
................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Mary Edmonia Lewis ........ [VP]
.....................................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 40
Wildfire ........ [VP]
...................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) 21 January 2005

Subject: ........ [BHA, BVRL-UNM, Gallery Systems, Grove Art, RKD, VP]
....................  Ancestry.com [online] 2000- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8757543/edmonia-mary-lewis
....................  Bearden and Henderson. A History of African-American Artists from 1792 to the present (1993)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Buick, The Ideal Works of Edmonia Lewis, American Art (1995)
....................  Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (2000-)
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Collins, Women Artists in America (1980)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: no96049212
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 20 January 2005; 21 January 2005
....................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 40-43; 40
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: no96049212
....................  Locke, Negro in art (1940)
....................  Perry, Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art (1976)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 123202
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q512065
 
Note:
English .......... [BVRL-UNM, VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 20 January 2005
.......... Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 40-43
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