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Selma Burke sculpted portraits of famous African-American figures as well as lesser-known subjects. She also explored human emotion and family relationships in more expressionistic works. [13] While she admired the abstract modernists, her work was more concerned with rendering the symbolic human form in ways both dignified and symbolic. [4]
Pages in category "African-American women sculptors" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Selma Burke; C. Elizabeth Catlett; Barbara ...
Selma Burke's plaque for Roosevelt Some, at the time of design and since, have seen similarities between the dime and a plaque depicting Roosevelt sculpted by African-American sculptor Selma Burke , unveiled in September 1945, which is in the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington; Burke was among those alleging her work was used by Sinnock ...
We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s–1970s was an art exhibition held at the Woodmere Art Museum from September 26, 2015 through January 24, 2016. [1] [2] It included artists from Philadelphia who were active from the 1920s through the 1970s.
Pages in category "20th-century African-American artists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 529 total. ... Selma Burke; Calvin ...
This category is for articles about African-American individuals who are notable because of their sculpture. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American sculptors . It includes sculptors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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Another controversy surrounding Sinnock's design involves his image of Roosevelt. Soon after the coin's release, it was claimed that Sinnock borrowed his design of Roosevelt from a bas relief created by African American sculptor Selma Burke, unveiled at the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington, D.C. in September 1945. Sinnock denied this ...