About Dixie Selden

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Dixie Seldon
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    Based primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dixie Selden was a painter in impressionist style of portraits, genre, and landscape, and was also an illustrator. She studied at the Cincinnati Museum Art School with Frank Duveneck, and became one of his favorite students. At his request she painted his portrait before he died. She took a summer class in Venice, Italy with William Merritt Chase.

    Selden was President of the Cincinnati Women's Art Club, and was active in the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She exhibited with those groups as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Selden traveled extensively, especially along the New Englan...

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