↗United States · c. 1896–1908
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
Albert Pinkham Ryder
American Painting and Sculpture Sundry Purchase Fund and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
United States · 1868
Indian Combat
Edmonia Lewis
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- Overall: 76.2 x 48.3 x 36.5 cm (30 x 19 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Country / context
- United States
- Movement / tradition
- North American arts
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- North American arts ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
A spiraling composition with three intertwined figures, Indian Combat ranks as Edmonia Lewis’s most dynamic and complex creation. Although her Native American subjects typically exist in multiple versions, this example appears to be unique. Of Indigenous (Mississauga) and African American ancestry, Edmonia Lewis studied at Oberlin College and apprenticed with a sculptor in Boston before moving to Rome in 1866. Her sculptures were readily purchased by patrons on both sides of the Atlantic.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
