{"id":56677,"date":"2018-07-29T23:35:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56677"},"modified":"2018-07-30T01:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:28:03","slug":"overlooked-no-more-edmonia-lewis-sculptor-of-worldwide-acclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56677","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked No More: Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor of Worldwide Acclaim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overlooked No More: Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor of Worldwide Acclaim<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-07-25<\/p>\n

Penelope Green<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe 19th century sculptor Edmonia Lewis<\/a>. The intense focus on her race both frustrated her and fueled her ambition.
\nHarvard Art Museums\/Fogg Museum<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As an artist she transcended constraints, and as a woman of color, she confronted a society that wished to categorize her.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 1851, obituaries in <\/em>The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With <\/em>Overlooked, we\u2019re adding the stories of remarkable people whose deaths went unreported in The Times.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was the middle of the 19th century, and Edmonia Lewis<\/a>, part West Indian, part Chippewa<\/a>, had the audacity to be an artist. It was risky enough for a free woman of color to pursue such a career, but to claim marble as her medium was to tilt at the Victorian conventions<\/a> of the time, which decreed gentler aesthetic forms for the second sex, like poetry or painting.<\/p>\n

Among the first black sculptors known to achieve widespread international fame, Lewis was raised Catholic, educated at Oberlin College in Ohio<\/a> and mentored by abolitionists in Boston<\/a>. She lived much of her life in Rome<\/a>, sailing to Europe<\/a> in 1865 and joining a community of American sculptors there who included female artists derided by the author Henry James<\/a> as \u201ca white marmorean<\/a> flock.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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