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Selma Burke
American sculptor
Selma Hortense Burke (December 31, 1900 – August 29, 1995) was an American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement.[1] Burke is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which is the model for his image on the obverse of the dime.[2] 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.[3][4] In 1979, she was awarded the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.[5] She summed up her life as an artist, "I really live and move in the atmosphere in which I am creating".[6]
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Selma Burke was born on December 31, 1900, in Mooresville, North Carolina, the seventh of 10 children of Reverend Neil and Mary Elizabeth Colfield Burke.[7][8] Her father was an AME ChurchMinister who worked on the railroads for additional income. Her father died when she was twelve and in 1970 her mother was 101 years old.[6] As a child, she attended a one-room segregated schoolhouse, and often played with the riverbed clay found near her home.[3][
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List of 20th-century women artists
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
The list covers artists born from 1870 through 1969. For later births see List of 21st-century women artists.
Before 1870
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Louise Abbéma (1858–1927), painter, printmaker, sculptor
Helen Allingham (1848–1926), painter, illustrator
Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), painter[1]
Ester Almqvist (1869–1934), Swedish painter
Anna Ancher (1859–1935), Danish painter
Sophie Anderson (1823–1903), painter
Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901), nun and painter
Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869–1948), stained glass artist
Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter
Susie M. Barstow (1836–1923), painter
Jane E. Bartlett (1839–1923), painter and portraitist