Edmonia Lewis has a singular claim to fame,
She was the first black sculptress to get a name,
She was born in New York but worked in Rome,
And from 1865, Italy is where she called home.
Her work sold for $50,000 or more,
She was feted by museums and socialites by the score,
She even sculpted Ulysses S. Grant,
Till the 1880s, her work continued to enchant.
Lewis died childless, a sculptor of note,
As the first black woman to do this, she gets my vote.