--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Sculptor Edmonia Lewis description: Google's new Doodle celebrates the 19th century American sculptor for her "self-expression through art, even in the face of adversity." canonical: https://time.com/4656108/google-doodle-sculptor-edmonia-lewis/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-01T03:47:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:39.632Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Sculptor Edmonia Lewis og:description: She is lauded for her "self-expression ... even in the face of adversity." og:url: https://time.com/4656108/google-doodle-sculptor-edmonia-lewis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt465197b8c379adaf/6988b83a196cf45c9603eb13/celebrating-edmonia-lewis-6330250832117760-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=740&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 740 og:image:height: 416 og:image:alt: celebrating-edmonia-lewis-6330250832117760-2-hp2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Sculptor Edmonia Lewis twitter:description: She is lauded for her "self-expression ... even in the face of adversity." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt465197b8c379adaf/6988b83a196cf45c9603eb13/celebrating-edmonia-lewis-6330250832117760-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=740&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Celebrates Sculptor Edmonia Lewis with New Doodle > Sponsored content. 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Born to a father of Afro-Haitian descent and a mother of Mississauga Ojibwe and African-American heritage in 1844, Lewis was considered the first woman of African-American and Native American heritage to become a globally renowned fine arts sculptor, [according](https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-edmonia-lewis) to Google. “Today, we celebrate her and what she stands for — self-expression through art, even in the face of adversity,” Google wrote. Enrolled in Oberlin College at age 15 but unable to complete her degree because of the discrimination she faced, she later apprenticed under after Edward A. Brackett, a Boston sculptor who worked with some of the era’s best-known abolitionists, and found success. Later, she would be based in Rome, where she started sculpting with marble, and was known to fuse those cultural themes with the Neoclassical style in her works. She continued to win praise for her artwork until her death in 1907. According to Google, Lewis is depicted in the process of sculpting _The Death of Cleopatra_ — one of her best-known pieces, which received acclaim as “the most remarkable piece of sculpture in the American section” of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The vibrancy of the Google logo, meanwhile, reflects her Native American name, “Wildfire.” Her life story, as well as her works on display in the Smithsonian, are now [featured](https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/gQJi3NKm3VagLg) in Google Arts & Culture. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4656108/google-doodle-sculptor-edmonia-lewis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4656108/google-doodle-sculptor-edmonia-lewis/"},"headline":"Google Celebrates Sculptor Edmonia Lewis with New Doodle","datePublished":"2017-02-01T03:47:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:39.632Z","description":"She was the first woman of African-American and Native American heritage to become a globally renowned sculptor","url":"https://time.com/4656108/google-doodle-sculptor-edmonia-lewis/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt465197b8c379adaf/6988b83a196cf45c9603eb13/celebrating-edmonia-lewis-6330250832117760-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt465197b8c379adaf/6988b83a196cf45c9603eb13/celebrating-edmonia-lewis-6330250832117760-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"celebrating-edmonia-lewis-6330250832117760-2-hp2x","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4656108/google-doodle-sculptor-edmonia-lewis/","name":"Google Celebrates Sculptor Edmonia Lewis with New Doodle"}}]}] ```