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Give Cupid a Break!


Poor Cupid Come to the Renwick Gallery between noon and 2:00 P.M. today for a Valentine's Day program.

During your lunch break, join Renwick staff to create Valentine's Day cards in the Grand Salon. The Renwick Gallery is located at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, across the street from the White House.

What? Can't join us in Washington? Then learn about African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis—maker of today's marble carving Poor Cupid (Love Ensnared)—in our virtual exhibition Lost and Found: Edmonia Lewis's Cleopatra.

Pictured: Edmonia Lewis, 1843/45–after 1911, Poor Cupid, modeled about 1872, carved 1876, marble, 27 x 13 3/4 x 12 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alfred T. Morris Sr.