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Edmonia Lewis : wildfire in marble / Rinna Evelyn Wolfe.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection NB237.L487 W66 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfe, Rinna, author.
- Series:
- People in focus book.
- A people in focus book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis, Edmonia--Juvenile literature.
- Lewis, Edmonia.
- Ojibwa Indians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- African American sculptors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American sculptors.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Wildfire in Marble
- Place of Publication:
- Parsippany, New Jersey : Dillon Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Biography of African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis.
- Contents:
- Edmonia's Chippewa Heritage
- Oberlin College and Ohio life
- The case of the spiced wine
- Edmonia Lewis: artist
- Awakening in Rome
- Edmonia meets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Travels and "fancy pieces"
- The death of Cleopatra
- Edmonia's legacy: how good was she?
- Sculptures by Edmonia Lewis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-126) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0382397134
- 9780382397134
- 0382397142
- 9780382397141
- 0964144913
- 9780964144910
- OCLC:
- 36910049
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