Kidnapped, beaten and left to die, Edmonia Lewis, a talented artist with both African and Native-American ancestry, refused to abandon her dreams. In the winter of 1862, a white mob had attacked ...

Edmonia Lewis was a groundbreaking sculptor whose work made a major impression both in America and overseas. Now, she is being immortalized on a United States postage stamp, as reported by Art News.

Edmonia Lewis was the first sculptor of African American and Native American (Mississauga) descent to achieve international fame. Adopting a neoclassical style then widely popular, she found ...

Edmonia Lewis' Death of Cleopatra was a sensation at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, among both admirers and those who found Lewis' depiction of the queen's suicide too macabre.

This week, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a Black Heritage “forever” stamp honoring Edmonia Lewis, who got her start in Boston and became the first Black and Native American sculptor to rise to ...

Miss lewis speaks very frankly and unaffectedly of her early struggles and privations. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

During the 1990s, artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood was driving along the 405 Freeway in San Diego when she spotted a yellow sign showing a man, a woman, and a little girl running in fear from an ...