Edmonia Lewis美国, 1844–1907可否一睹真容?
華盛頓哥倫比亞特區, 美國
归属已知。今日是否在展,馆方并未说明,而我们不敢妄加揣测。
Old Arrow Maker depicts a scene from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855). This poem relies on romanticized tropes about Native peoples' lifeways as incompatible with modern life. Edmonia Lewis, an Afro-Indigenous artist who was raised by her Mississauga maternal aunts, capitalized on the broad appeal of Longfellow's poem. Longfellow was an abolitionist, and his work was popular among the same people who were Lewis's primary patrons.
史密森尼美國藝術博物館