Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha are 1868 sculptures by Edmonia Lewis. They are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on view in gallery 759. African-American, Haitian and Chippewa (Ojibwa) artist, Lewis, developed her neoclassical style of marble sculpture while working in Rome. Lewis was an admirer of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, and in 1869 Longfellow visited her studio where he posed for one of her portraits which was shortly afterward acquired by Harvard University. Often working in themes that intersected her identity, Lewis focused a series of marble sculptures based on Longfellow’s much-referenced
Twin Cities Hiawatha cars in Chicago. The "Afternoon Hiawatha" ended on January 23, 1970. The "Morning Hiawatha" continued until the formation of Amtrak, making its last run on April 30, 1971. Amtrak retained a single Chicago-Minneapolis frequency with the Burlington Northern's "Empire Builder", which was re-routed over the Milwaukee Road's line through Milwaukee to St. Paul. Amtrak brought back the name "Twin Cities Hiawatha" as a Chicago-Minneapolis service on January 16, 1972. On June 12 that year Amtrak combined this service with the "North Coast Hiawatha"; three days a week the train continued to Seattle, otherwise it terminated at Minneapolis. In 1977 Amtrak