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Edmonia Lewis

1844 - 1907

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Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an American sculptor. Born in Upstate New York of mixed African-American and Native American (Mississauga Ojibwe) heritage, she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmonia Lewis has received more than 1,710,155 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Edmonia Lewis is the 213th most popular sculptor (down from 206th in 2019), the 6,891st most popular biography from United States (up from 8,790th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Sculptor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Edmonia Lewis ranks 213 out of 258. Before her are Barry Flanagan, Audrey Munson, Kārlis Zāle, Erwin Wurm, W. J. Coffee, and Jens Galschiøt. After her are Josef Václav Myslbek, Lola Mora, Yervand Kochar, Duane Hanson, Franz West, and Imre Varga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Edmonia Lewis ranks 98. Before her are Leonid Sobolev, Ahmet Mithat, Marie Spartali Stillman, Émile Oustalet, Marie Hankel, and John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry. After her are Alexei Fedchenko, Vassily Maximov, Klaus Berntsen, Edward Carpenter, Simon Gregorčič, and Lorenzo Latorre. Among people deceased in 1907, Edmonia Lewis ranks 81. Before her are Désirée Artôt, Ida Saxton McKinley, Jakob Hurt, Ignaz Brüll, Eva Nansen, and George Sheldon. After her are Jules de Trooz, Lena Rice, Dimitar Petkov, Muriel Robb, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, and Charles Howard Hinton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmonia Lewis ranks 6,891 out of 20,380. Before her are Connie Stevens (1938), Adoniram Judson (1788), Tom Arnold (1959), Paul McCrane (1961), Marc Alaimo (1942), and Richard Benjamin (1938). After her are Richard Gant (1944), Betty Field (1913), Robert Trump (1948), Alf Clausen (1941), Charles Greene (1945), and Sam Altman (1985).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Edmonia Lewis ranks 11. Before her are Dan Flavin (1933), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Walter De Maria (1935), Jacob Epstein (1880), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), and Audrey Munson (1891). After her are Duane Hanson (1925), Daniel Chester French (1850), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875), Chris Burden (1946), Horatio Greenough (1805), and Beverly Pepper (1922).

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