Episode No. 748 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Shawnya L. Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll.
Harris and Richmond-Moll are the curators of “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. The exhibition presents the life and work of nineteenth-century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis in the context of her contemporaries and artists she may have influenced. The exhibition is on view through June 7. A valuable catalogue was published by the Peabody Essex Museum and Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $50-55.
As discussed on the program:
- Gisela Torres, Reverie and Slumber, 2020.
Instagram: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Tyler Green.
Air date: March 5, 2026.
Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867.
Sargent Claude Johnson, Forever Free, 1933.
Edmonia Lewis, James Peck Thomas, 1874.
Edmonia Lewis, probably Antoinette Rutgers Thomas, 1873.
Edmonia Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1872.
After Josiah Wedgwood, Am I Not a Woman and a Sister, 1838.
Edmonia Lewis, Hagar, 1875.
Edmonia Lewis, Portrait Bust of a Contadina, 1872.
Margaret Foley, Pascuccia, 1866.
Edmonia Lewis, The Clasped Hands of Gerrit and Ann Smith, 1872.
Edmonia Lewis, Wendell Phillips, 1871.
Edward Augustus Brackett, Bust of John Brown, 1860.
Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra, 1876.
Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains, 1859.
Edmonia Lewis, Hagar, 1875.
Edmonia Lewis after Michelangelo, Moses, 1875.
Aaron Douglas, Noah’s Ark, 1927.
Edmonia Lewis, The Old Indian Arrow Maker and His Daughter, 1866/67.
Edmonia Lewis, Hiawatha’s Marriage, 1866/70.
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