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Mary Edmonia Lewis

Mary Edmonia Lewis was a U.S. Female Artist born in 1844. Edmonia Lewis contributed to the Neoclassical movement and died in 1907. Get notified when Mary Edmonia Lewis's biography is complete:

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

1741-1807

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889

1801 2000

A self-taught painter struggles through poverty and war

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Archeologist, painter, scientist, orphan

Osman Hamdi Bey

The unflinching embrace of motherhood

Mary Cassatt

Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor

Sarah Bernhardt

Realism is not always nice

Ilya Repin

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Mary Edmonia Lewis

Columbus

Forever Free

Bust of Dr. Dio Lewis

Hiawatha's Marriage