The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis (67 page)

[846]
Buick, “Sentimental Education,” 91: “To commemorate their meeting, Lewis made of bust of the elder statesman.”

[847]
BrDE, Oct. 23, 1888: “the property of Mr. Richard Dixon” of Brooklyn.”

[848]
Ibid. “A larger copy of the statue … is to be ordered by Father Ward, rector of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, of Brooklyn.” Father Edward Doran, Pastor, Dec. 6, 2010, “The only statue of Saint Charles Borromeo we have was placed in the steeple of the Church in 1867 when the Church was built… we have no records.”

[849]
Zweiseler Auktionhaus Claus Ölschläger, Zwielsel, Germany, Mar. 11, 2000, lot. 875. sold for DEM 190 (US$93). Artprice, accessed July 30, 2011, http://web.artprice.com.

[850]
Viola Vernon, “Some Artists in Rome,”
Syracuse
(NY)
Post,
Feb. 2, 1895: “Her studio was filled with statues of heroes in our civil war. Chief among these were Stanton, Lincoln, with his proclamation, and last, but not least, rugged old John Brown, her soul, with his marching on.” Written in the past tense, the article mentioned Hosmer “twenty years ago,” and spoke of Edmonia’s studio “tucked away in a corner of Piazza Barberini.” Vernon, daughter of a missionary, was born in 1873 in Italy.

[851]
Ibid.

[852]
David Bahssin, Post Road Gallery, email, Oct. 15, 2008;” SIRIS. Cf. Buick,
Child of the Fire,
239, note 112.

[853]
Rubenstein,
American Women Sculptors,
56, reported that Edmonia made a portrait of “the Pope.” Monsignor Charles Burns, Vatican archivist, to author, Dec. 13, 1997, advised the Vatican would have documented a sitting, but no such documentation exists. She may have worked from memory, engravings, or photos. Pope Pius IX died in Rome, Feb. 7, 1878, and was succeeded by Pope Leo XIII, who served 1878-1903.

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854
]
Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser
(Dublin, Ireland), Latest News, London Correspondence, Jan. 29, 1880, reported the auction sale of “a marble bust of Christ, by Edmonia Lewis £3,” as part of the estate of Monsignor Capel of Kensington.

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