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SELMA BURKE

SELMA BURKE (1900¬¬-1995), born in North Carolina, began her career studying with artists Henri Matisse and Aristide Maillol in Paris and received an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 1941. Burke sculpted the profile of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that appeared on the 1945 dime, and in 1946 she moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she focused on small-scale portraits through the rest of her career.