EDMONIA LEWIS  

         First Internationally Acclaimed African American Sculptor

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Recent Bibliography

NEW 2011: Melanie Anne Herzog, "Sculpting a Lineage: Elizabeth Catlett and African American Women Sculptors," Sculpture Review, Spring 2011.

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Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson. A History of African-American Artists From 1972 to the Present (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993): pages 54–77, 485-489.  Upon publication this book was noted by the Los Angeles Times as “a landmark work, both in the fields of art history and of African American studies,” and as “the first in-depth reference work on the history and development of art by black Americans” by the New York Times Book Review. 

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.

Celeste-Marie Bernier, "Edmonia 'Wildfire' Lewis," in African American Visual Arts from Slavery to the Present. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009): pages 44-49.

Kirsten P. Buick, Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject (Duke University Press, Feb., 2010).

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

Timothy Anglin Burgard, "Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities," American Art Review 7 (Feb. Mar 1995): pages 114-117.

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

"Testament To Bravery" PBS Newshour: Charlayne Hunter-Gault / David Driskell / George Gurney.

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. 

Glenette Tilley Turner, Follow in Their Footsteps (1997): pages 23-38 includes a short biography and a brief play suited for elementary school use.

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.