"Edmonia Lewis challenged social barriers and assumptions about artists in mid-19th century America," the USPS said The United States Postal Service is honoring the contributions of late pioneering ...

The US Postal Service will release a new stamp honoring Edmonia Lewis, known as the first internationally recognized Black American sculptor. The stamp, which was designed by USPS art director Antonio ...

Black History Month is officially upon us and Google has kicked it off like they do each year—with a special Google Doodle. This time the tech giant put the spotlight on little-known, but ...

In the late 19th century, a time when the world of fine art sculpture was almost exclusively the domain of white men, sculptor Edmonia Lewis (~1844-1907) — a woman of Black and Ojibwe descent, born in ...

Cleopatra was found in a dusty mall storage room outside Chicago in the late 1980s — wedged in among discarded Christmas decorations, covered in graffiti and house paint. The 3,000-pound neoclassical ...

This winter one of the great 19th-century American sculptures at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will begin a two-year national tour as part of Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone, opening February 14, ...

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The U.S. Postal Service is making 19th century sculptor Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis the face of its 45th stamp for the Black Heritage series. The stamp will debut later this month. Inside the Smithsonian ...