EDMONIA LEWIS  

    First Internationally Acclaimed African American Sculptor

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Recent Bibliography

Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson. A History of African-American Artists From 1972 to the Present. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993): pages 54–77.  

Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, "Triumphant Determination: The Legacy of African American Women Artists," in Bearing Witness. Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists (New York: Rizzoli, 1996): pages 49-82.

Kirsten P. Buick, "The Ideal Works of Edmonia Lewis: Invoking and Inverting Autobiography." American Art 9 (Summer 1995): pages 5–19.

Jack Flotte, "Edmonia Lewis and the Three Wise Men," ICA News 6, Summer/Fall 2004.

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century American. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1985): pages 85–98.

Stephen May,  "The Object at Hand." Smithsonian Magazine 27 (September 1996): pages 16, 18, 20.

Regina A. Perry, Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1992): pages 134–38.

Charmaine A. Nelson, The Color of Stone. Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

Marilyn Richardson, "Edmonia Lewis's The Death of Cleopatra." International Review of African American Art, 12, no. 2 (1995): pages 36–52.

·        "Hiawatha in Rome: Edmonia Lewis and Figures from Longfellow" Catalogue of Antiques and Fine Art (Spring 2002): pages 198-203.

·       "Edmonia Lewis at McGrawville: The Early Education of a 19th Century Black Woman Artist" 19th Century Contexts 22,2 (Fall 2000): pages 239-256.

·       "Taken From Life: Edward M. Bannister, Edmonia Lewis and the Memorialization of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment" in Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and the Massachusetts Historical Society,  2000): pages 94-115. 

Judith Wilson, "Hagar’s Daughters: Social History, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-US Women’s Art," in Bearing Witness. Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists (New York: Rizzoli, 1996): pages 95-112.

Rinna Evelyn Wolfe, Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble. (Parsippany NJ: Dillon Press div. Simon & Schuster, 1998). Winner, Carter G. Woodson Book Award, National Council for the Social Sciences.