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NOTED AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCULPTOR’S WORKS ON VIEW AT READING PUBLIC MUSEUM

Released: April 10, 2012

Two works by noted African-American sculptor, Selma Burke, are on display in the Reading Public Museum’s newly renovated and expanded Cohen Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The pieces — a marble bust of a young girl and a wooden mother and child — are on a two-year loan to The Museum courtesy of Anselene Morris and Frederick Toone Bacon. Born in 1900 in Mooresville, North Carolina, Selma Burke’s work was never fully acknowledged. As a child, she liked to whittle and model in clay ...