Cleveland Museum of Art
Indian Combat
Edmonia Lewis
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A spiraling composition with three intertwined figures, Indian Combat ranks as Edmonia Lewis’s most dynamic and complex creation. Although her Native American subjects typically exist in multiple versions, this example appears to be unique. Of Indigenous (Ojibwe) and African American ancestry, Edmonia Lewis studied at Oberlin College and apprenticed with a sculptor in Boston before moving to Rome in 1866. Her sculptures were readily purchased by patrons on both sides of the Atlantic. Growing up in her Ojibwe community, Lewis went by a name that translates as "Wildfire."
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