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Lost & Found: Edmonia Lewis's Cleopatra

June 7, 1996 - April 14, 1997 (new closing date)

Museum: American Art Museum

Location: 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. Free brochure

See Sept. 1996 Smithsonian magazine, p. 16

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