The Old Indian Arrow Maker and His Daughter
Artist
Edmonia Lewis
American, 1844–1907
Datemodeled 1866, carved 1867
MediumMarble
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 21 1/4 × 14 × 13 1/2 in. (54 × 35.6 × 34.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Marilyn Jacobs Preyer
Object number2022.6
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesCraven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. (New York: Crowell, 1968), Illustrated on page 334.
Gerdts, William H. American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection (New York: Viking Press, 1973), Illustrated on page 132.
Bearden, Romare and Harry Henderson. A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989), Illustrated on page 70.
African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY, January 10 – March 8, 2008. Illustrated on page 35.
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Painting the Social Landscape,” The New York Sun, vol. 123, no. 201, January 31, 2008. Mentioned on pages 1 and 22.
Buick, Kirsten Pai. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black Indian Subject (Durham, Duke University Press, 2010).
Karen Chernick, “The Unlikely Success of Edmonia Lewis, a Black Sculptor in 19th-Century America,” Artsy, February 1, 2018.
Alice George, “Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Shattered Gender and Race Expectation in 19th-Century America,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 22, 2019.
Woods, Naurice Frank, Jr. Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art: The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis (University Press of Mississippi, 2021), Illustrated on page 162.
Hakim Bishra, “Edmonia Lewis, Prominent Black and Ojibwe Sculptor, Gets Her Own USPS Stamp,” Hyperallergic, January 4, 2022.Exhibition HistoryAfrican American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY, January 10 – March 8, 2008.
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 2 – August 18, 2019 (a different carving, same subject, from the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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William Wetmore Story
Modeled 1858–1863; carved 1864–1865
