Boston Women's Memorial: Phillis Wheatley  
Commonwealth Avenue and Fairfield Street, Boston, MA
bronze and granite, 2003
bronze: 59” x 50” x 32”

Wheatley, a slave in colonial Boston, was our first published African-American poet. Her pose is derived from the only extant image of her. She represents youth and Imagination.

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