Lost & Found: Edmonia Lewis's Cleopatra
The Death of Cleopatra, Edmonia Lewis, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park, Illinois
June 7, 1996 – April 14, 1997
Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
3rd Floor, Gallery 3-D
This exhibition features the long-missing, 2-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra by this African American artist. This sculpture was first exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, and was recently discovered in a Chicago suburb and restored.