Name: Edmonia Lewis Stamps
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Edmonia Lewis Stamps

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Issue Date: 1/26/2022

The 45th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors sculptor Edmonia Lewis (c.1844–1907). As the first African American and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition, Lewis challenged social barriers and assumptions about artists in mid-19th century America.

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The 45th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors sculptor Edmonia Lewis (c.1844–1907). As the first African American and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition, Lewis challenged social barriers and assumptions about artists in mid-19th century America.

The stamp art is a casein-paint portrait based on a photograph of Lewis by Augustus Marshall made in Boston between 1864 and 1871.

The work Lewis produced during her prolific career evokes the complexity of her social identity. Known by an Ojibwe name that translated into English as Wildfire, she made and sold crafts for tourists for part of her childhood when she lived with her aunts near Niagara Falls, New York. Many details of Lewis’s early life are unclear, and Lewis herself cultivated a deliberate air of mystery about her upbringing. Her brother, a successful entrepreneur, appears to have funded her education, a rare opportunity for a young African American and Native American woman in the 1850s.

Lewis’s drawing of the muse Urania, her earliest known work, was made during her time at Oberlin College in Ohio. In Boston in the early 1860s, Lewis sculpted clay, plaster, and marble busts and medallion portraits of famous men and women, and she exhibited and sold plaster-cast replicas at public events.

In 1865, Lewis sailed for Europe and settled in Rome, where she created marble neoclassical sculpture that often incorporated African American and Native American subjects. A Roman Catholic, she also made numerous religious sculptures, exhibited and sold her work at Catholic events, and took commissions for sculptures for churches in Baltimore and Scotland. At the same time, her studio became a must-see attraction for American tourists. She continued to sculpt busts of prominent Americans who visited Rome in the 1870s and 1880s, and she frequently returned to the United States to exhibit and sell her work.

With heightened attention to Lewis’s life and career in recent decades, previously unlocated works have come to light, and she has become more widely represented in museums and private collections. As the public continues to discover the beautiful subtleties of Lewis’s work, scholars will further interpret her role in American art and the ways she explored, affirmed, or de-emphasized her complex cultural identity to meet or expand the artistic expectations of her day.

Art director Antonio Alcalá designed this stamp with art by Alex Bostic.

The Edmonia Lewis stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp in panes of 20. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.

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SKUs featured on this page: 481604

Issue:	Edmonia Lewis Stamp
Item Number:	481600
Denomination &	First-Class Mail® Forever®
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Format:	Pane of 20
Series:	Black Heritage
Issue Date & City:	January 26, 2022, Washington, DC 20066
Art Director:	Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA
Designer:	Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA
Artist:	Alex Bostic, Starkville, MS
Modeler:	Sandra Lane / Michelle Finn
Manufacturing Process:	Offset, Microprint
Printer:	Banknote Corporation of America
Press Type:	Gallus RCS
Stamps per Pane:	20
Print Quantity:	35,000,000 stamps
Paper Type:	Phosphor Tagged Paper, Block Tag
Adhesive Type:	Pressure-sensitive
Colors:	Pantone 7685, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Stamp Orientation:	Vertical
Image Area (w x h):	0.84 x 1.42 in./21.336 x 36.068 mm
Overall Size (w x h):	0.98 x 1.56 in./24.892 x 39.624 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h):	6 x 8.5 in./152.4 x 215.9 mm
Press Sheet Size (w x h):	12.243 x 17.743 in./ 310.9722 x 450.6722 mm
Plate Size:	80 stamps per revolution
Plate Number:	“B” followed by five (5) single digits in bottom 2 corners
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Front:	Header: “Black Heritage, Celebrating Edmonia Lewis, 45th in a series” • Plate number in bottom 2 corners
Back:	©2021 USPS • USPS Logo • Two barcodes (481600) • Plate position diagram (4) • Promotional text

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