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Hanging Laundry, c. 1920 Dixie Selden was born in Cincinnati in 1870 to John and Martha Selden. Shortly after Dixie's birth, John Selden moved the family across the Ohio River to Covington, Kentucky where Dixie spent her childhood. In 1884 she enrolled in the Cincinnati Art Academy studying there for six years. Dixie continued her education at the academy off and on until 1912 studying with Frank Duveneck. After the death of her parents, Dixie moved to Cincinnati making it her residence by 1910. She traveled to Venice about that time to study with William Merritt Chase for a summer. A trip four years later saw Selden under the tutorage of Henry B. Snell in Great Britain. The last 25 years of her life, she traveled abroad to Europe, China, Japan, Mexico and the Middle East. The work on exhibit was executed in rural France where Selden frequently painted the people of Brittany, Normandy, Quimpere and Concarneau. Dixie spent much of her career painting portraits, landscapes and genre scenes. Dixie Selden died November 15, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio at age 65. |
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