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In Conversation: About The Friends of African and African American Art

Helen Forbes Fields with Laura Ruth Bidwell (left), Darrell Fields (middle) and Bettina Katz (right)

About the Artist: Edmonia Lewis

[Edmonia Lewis is] “…the most interesting artist working in Europe…She has great natural genius, originality, earnestness, and simple genuine taste.”
--Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists (1867, pp. 603-04)