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executed was by no means an un-acceptable style of expressions existing only for those who practised art in Europe. Indeed, America had embraced this revival form of new interpretation and treatment of classical themese with eager anticipation. No doubt, Miss Lewis was very much taken by the work of Hiram Powers whose studies had taken him to Rome, Florence, and other Italian cities where he was able to see the best examples of art that Renaiassance artists had created. But the basic meaning that was to persist in Miss Lews's work was not to be tied to the style in which her subjects were executed so as much to the meaning of history and its enthnological presentation through black themes. The exact date of her death has not been accurately dtermined but it is assumed she died about 1900.