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Minnehaha

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Minnehaha

1868

Medium

Marble

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Dimensions

11 5/8 × 7 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. (29.5 × 18.4 × 12.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Morris K. Jesup and Friends of the American Wing Funds, 2015

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

Rights

Public Domain

About Edmonia Lewis

1845–1907 • United States

Lewis was the first African-American sculptor and woman to receive international recognition. Her mother was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian and her father a freeman of African descent. She studied liberal arts at Oberlin college before she moved to Boston. There she apprenticed with the sculptor Edward Brackett until she opened a studio of her own. She moved to Rome in 1865 for nine years and returned to the United States to critical acclaim.

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