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Mary Edmonia LewisAfrican-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture

Mary Edmonia Lewis was a U.S. Badass 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:

Columbus

1865-1867

Forever Free

1867

Bust of Dr. Dio Lewis

1868

Hiawatha's Marriage

1871

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
18012000
A self-taught painter struggles through poverty and war
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Archeologist, painter, scientist, orphan
Osman Hamdi Bey Mary Edmonia Lewis
The unflinching embrace of motherhood
Mary Cassatt
Painting dreams with a child's brush
Henri Rousseau

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