# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selma-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:30:20.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selma-burke"
name: "Selma Burke"
slug: "selma-burke"
description: "Selma Hortense Burke was an American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Burke is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which may have been the model for his image on the obverse of the dime. She described herself as \"a people's sculptor\" and created many pieces of public art, often portraits of prominent African-American figures like Duke Ellington, Mary McLeod Bethune and Booker T. Washington. In 1979, she was awarded the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. She summed up her life as an artist, \"I really live and move in the atmosphere in which I am creating\"."
tagline: "American sculptor (1900-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selma_Burke%2C_American_sculptor%2C_1900-1995%2C_in_her_studio.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1900-12-31"
deathDate: "1995-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.8
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.156589333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F_%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A0"
    title: "ᱥᱮᱞᱢᱟ ᱵᱟᱨᱠ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "سلمى بيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Burke"
    title: "Selma Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Burke"
    title: "Selma Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Burke"
    title: "Selma Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Burke"
    title: "Selma Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Burke"
    title: "Selma Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9075813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump