Artist
Selma Burke
born Mooresville, NC 1900-died New Hope, PA 1995

- Also known as
- Selma Hortense Burke
- Dr. Selma Burke
- Born
- Mooresville, North Carolina, United States
- Died
- New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Biography
Sculptor and educator who received national recognition for her relief portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which was the model for his image on the dime. Committed to teaching art to others, Burke established the Selma Burke Art School in New York City in 1946 and subsequently opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)