Said in Stone: Edmonia Lewis’s Sculptural Legacy

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Ph.D., The George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

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Join Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, the George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, for a behind-the-scenes look at the new exhibition, Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone. In the 1860s, Edmonia Lewis became the first sculptor of Black and Indigenous (Mississauga) descent to achieve international recognition. Her vivid, naturalistic stone sculptures feature abolitionists and social reformers, engage with Indigenous identity and community, and give new life to religious and mythological figures. Following her death in 1907, Lewis’s legacy endured in Black communities yet her contribution to American sculpture has largely been under recognized. Said in Stone is the first museum show of its kind to gather the full range of Lewis’s art alongside works by her contemporaries and the generations of artists she influenced.

The Florence Griswold Museum is planning a day trip to see this exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA on Monday, May 18. Click here for more information.

Image: Edmonia Lewis, Hagar, 1875, carved marble, 52 5/8 x 15 1/4 x 17 1/8 in. (133.6 x 38.8 x 43.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 1983.95.178

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