Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
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1900 Mooresville, North Carolina - 1995 New Hope, Pennsylvania. Known for: Modernist nude figure sculpture, portraits, teaching.
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Selma Burke, for whom the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City and the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh are named, was a distinguished black-woman sculptor. She sculpted in brass,... Read full biography
Selma Burke, for whom the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City and the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh are named, was a distinguished black-woman sculptor. She sculpted in brass, stone and wood, and her best subjects are nudes and historical figures. Selma Burke's most famous... Read full biography
Selma Burke, for whom the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City and the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh are named, was a distinguished black-woman sculptor. She sculpted in brass, stone and wood, and her best subjects are nudes and historical figures. Selma Burke's most famous accomplishment is the portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the dime coin that is used today. She was also an influential teacher and moving force in the development of black art in America. Her work is... Read full biography
Selma Burke, for whom the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City and the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh are named, was a distinguished black-woman sculptor. She sculpted in brass, stone and wood, and her best subjects are nudes and historical figures. Selma Burke's most famous accomplishment is the portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the dime coin that is used today. She was also an influential teacher and moving force in the development of black art in America. Her work is reminiscent of Aristide Maillol, with whom she studied. Selma H. Burke was born in 1900 in Mooresville, North Carolina. She was one of ten children born to Neal Burke, a Methodist Minister, and Mary Jackson Burke, an educator and homemaker. Selma... Read full biography
Selma Burke, for whom the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City and the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh are named, was a distinguished black-woman sculptor. She sculpted in brass, stone and wood, and her best subjects are nudes and historical figures. Selma Burke's most famous accomplishment is the portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the dime coin that is used today. She was also an influential teacher and moving force in the development of black art in America. Her work is reminiscent of Aristide Maillol, with whom she studied. Selma H. Burke was born in 1900 in Mooresville, North Carolina. She was one of ten children born to Neal Burke, a Methodist Minister, and Mary Jackson Burke, an educator and homemaker. Selma became interested in art when she discovered that by modeling clay taken from the river bed near her parents' farm house she could make all k... Read full biography
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In Search of Missing Masters: The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection of African-American Art
2009
(Exhibition catalog)Moore, Lewis Tanner124 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesSt. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)625 pagesNorth American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesGreenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995Severens, Martha R289 pages (color)American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer638 pagesAnnual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)538 pagesHarlem Renaissance Art of Black America
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Studio Museum in Harlem200 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesAmerican Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer560 pages (color)Art: African American
1978Lewis, Samella246 pages (color)Two Centuries of Black American Art
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C221 pages (color)Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pagesAmerican Negro Art
1960Dover, Cedric186 pages (color)Modern Negro Art
1943Porter, James A272 pages