{"id":18506,"date":"2018-07-13T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=18506"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:21:37","slug":"sculptures-by-edmonia-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/sculptures-by-edmonia-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptures by Edmonia Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, USA\" width=\"798\" height=\"1330\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870.jpg 798w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870-768x1280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870-600x1000.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870-700x1167.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EdmoniaLewis_ca_1870-332x553.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Edmonia Lewis (1845 &#8211; ca. 1911), ca. 1870. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, USA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"981\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-600x892.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-700x1041.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hiawatha_by_EdmoniaLewis-332x494.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Hiawatha, 1868, by Edmonia Lewis, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. Marble; 13 3\/4 \u00d7 7 3\/4 \u00d7 5 1\/2 in. (34.9 \u00d7 19.7 \u00d7 14 cm). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Minnehaha_by_EdmoniaLewis.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy of he Newark Museum, USA\" width=\"282\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Minnehaha_by_EdmoniaLewis.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Minnehaha_by_EdmoniaLewis-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Minnehaha, marble, 1868, by Edmonia Lewis, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. Courtesy of the Newark Museum, USA.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/sculptor-edmonia-lewis-1845-1907\/\">Sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1845 \u2013 ca. 1907)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/edmonia-lewis-death-of-cleopatra\/\">Edmonia Lewis &#8211; Death of Cleopatra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sculptures &#8216;Minehaha&#8217; and &#8216;Hiawata&#8217; by black American artist Edmonia Lewis (1845 &#8211; 1911) who migrated to Europe to work on as an artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,27],"tags":[1015],"class_list":["post-18506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lesbian-art-herstory","category-sculpture","tag-edmonia-lewis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}