id:			169187
accession number:	2011.110
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.110
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:27.125000

Indian Combat, 1868. Edmonia Lewis (American, c. 1844–1907). Marble; overall: 76.2 x 48.3 x 36.5 cm (30 x 19 x 14 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture Sundry Purchase Fund and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2011.110

title:				Indian Combat
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			1868
creation date earliest:		1868
creation date latest:		1868
current location:		207 American Realism
creditline:			American Painting and Sculpture Sundry Purchase Fund and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	marble
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Edmonia Lewis (American, c. 1844–1907)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 76.2 x 48.3 x 36.5 cm (30 x 19 x 14 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	The base of the sculpture is inscribed: "EDMONIA LEWIS / FECIT A ROME 1868"

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Artlens Exhibition 2019
	opening date:   2019-06-11T04:00:00
	<i>Artlens Exhibition 2019</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	[Unidentified antique/estate consignment shop, Newton, MA]
	date: 1950s
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	William (1916-2006) and Betty (1926-2010) Bresnick, Weston, MA
	date: 1950s-2010
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	[Gabriel's Auctioneers and Appraisers, Norwood, MA]
	date: 2010
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	[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York]
	date: 2010-2011
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2011
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ausherman, Maria, <em>Masters of Shape: The Lives and Art of American Women Sculptors. </em>(Novato, CA: Goff Books, 2022).
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced, p. 71.
	url:		

	Huidekoper, Alfred. <em>Glimpses of Europe in 1851 and 1867-8</em>. Meadeville, Pa.: Printed for the Author, 1882.<br>Published as: <em>Indians Wrestling</em>
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 184
	url:		https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30719924.html

	Gerdts, William H. "Celebrities of the Grand Tour: The American Sculptors in Florence and Rome." In <em>Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914. </em>Theodore E. Stebbins, ed., 66-93. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 89, as Indians Wrestling.
	url:		

	Litt, Steven. "Museum Acquires Rare Sculpture." <em>The Plain Dealer </em>(November 11, 2011): B2.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. B2
	url:		

	Cole, Mark. "Indian Combat." In T<em>reasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art London; United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 260-261
	url:		

	"Museums." <em>The Art Newspaper </em>21 (January 2012): 13-25.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P.25
	url:		

	Franklin, David. "Recent Acquisitions (2005—11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 154, no. 1312 (July 2012): 525-32.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 530
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/23232806

	Cole, Mark and Helen Forbes-Fields. <em>African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	reproduced: p.2; Mentioned: p.3
	url:		

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 49
	url:		

	"Education. Teach to Learn." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>59, no. 3 (May/June 2019): 5-11.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 5.
	url:		

	Woods, Naurice Frank. <em>Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art: The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis</em>. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 163-164, fig. 3.5
	url:		

	Ware, Zaria. Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art. New York, NY : Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 171
	url:		

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