This 19th-century American sculptor of African American and Ojibwe heritage was profiled in Maine Antique Digest in 2011, and her work was showcased alongside Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1995. Which artist made her name carving neoclassical marble figures in the 1860s while in Rome?

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Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844-1907) was the first sculptor of African American and Native American heritage to achieve international acclaim. Her signature marble works, including 'Forever Free' and busts of abolitionist figures like Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, were carved during a long expatriate career in Rome.