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Edmonia Lewis Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Edmonia Lewis at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Forever Free, 1867
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C. Forever Free, 1867
National Museums Liverpool, UK Bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1872
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia The Wooing of Hiawatha, marble, 1866
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
PBS Biographical info from the African American World section of the PBS website
Women Artists from the Medieval Period to the Present
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Edmonia Lewis Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine "Hiawatha in Rome: Edmonia Lewis and Figures from Longfellow" (2002)
Artnet Magazine Forever Free, 1867
Resource Library Magazine
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