EPISODE · Sep 6, 2022 · 27 MIN
BONUS: Finding Cleopatra
from PORTRAITS · host National Portrait Gallery
From our fellow Smithsonian podcast, Sidedoor, the story of Edmonia Lewis— the first sculptor of African American and Native American (Mississauga) descent to achieve international fame. Her 3,000-pound masterwork, “The Death of Cleopatra,” commemorated another powerful woman who broke with convention… and then it disappeared. See Edmonia Lewis’s portrait here.
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