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Indian Combat
Edmonia Lewis1868
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Lewis studied at Oberlin College and apprenticed with a sculptor in Boston before relocating to Rome in 1866. Of Native American (Ojibwe) and African American ancestry, she became the first non-white American sculptor to achieve international renown. Lewis’s most popular works were Native American subjects, readily purchased by patrons on both sides of the Atlantic. Indian Combat, a spiraling composition with three intertwined figures, ranks as her most dynamic and complex creation. Although Lewis’s Native American subjects typically exist in multiple versions, this example appears to be unique.
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- Title: Indian Combat
- Creator: Edmonia Lewis (American, c. 1844-1907)
- Date Created: 1868
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 76.2 x 48.3 x 36.5 cm (30 x 19 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Purchased sometime in the 1950s by a man living in Weston, MA; (Gabriel's Auctioneers/Appraisers, Norwood, MA); (Gerald Peters Gallery, NY)
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.110
- Medium: marble
- Inscriptions: The base of the sculpture is inscribed: "EDMONIA LEWIS / FECIT A ROME 1868"
- Fun Fact: Growing up in her Ojibwe community, Lewis went by a name that translates as "Wildfire."
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: American Painting and Sculpture Sundry Purchase Fund and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: American - Sculpture
- Accession Number: 2011.110
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