Selma Burke
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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.
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Louis StokesAlso won honorary degree from Spelman College
John H. JohnsonAlso won Candace AwardArthur SmithAlso won North Carolina Award for Fine Arts
Ilse BingAlso won Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Pearl PrimusAlso won honorary degree from Spelman College
Nell BlaineAlso won Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement AwardAbout this person
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".
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